"what we see is merely the result of century old taboos exploding in our faces"

No, wrongdoing is not simply "taboo" and it is man's nature after the Fall.

Reminds me how one time in a psychology class the professor asked us what we was so wrong with the "taboo" of incest.

I said " because you get a concentration of recessive genes"
and the whole class almost started clapping for me.

The professor poo poo'd my statement and said "It is still just a taboo."