Pub Culture and Religious Hooliganism

There is a new debate going on here. In fact, the debate is old, only renewed lately. Recently some goons attacked the girls having gone to a pub in Mangalore. The goons covered themselves as Ram Sene activists. One wonders why people not having a free bend of mind, and not having the courage to allow others to have free mind, have to adopt the garb of religious activism? We have moral police in Muslim countries, we have the talibanis in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we have VHP, Ram Sene, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and many similar groups in India. There only job is vandalising the society around them, and only identity is mass/mob hooliganism. They are law unto themselves.
One wonders, again, that is religion only a medium or excuse for some ridiculously absurd or unacceptable act? A Chandramohan indulges in adultery, marries another man's wife, leaves her own, and converts to Islam and becomes Chand Mohammad. Is this the goal of religion? Clerics of all the religions must sit and think.
However, we were talking of a debate. The debate is about whether girls should visit a pub, and whether there is something like pub culture? The question is, should even boys go to a pub? Why governments keep encouraging the culture of alcoholism? This in itself is the root of many evils, and diseases. Is going to a pub, or some similar place, any indication of advancement? It is strikingly amazing that people of both lower and higher socio-economic strata do the same thing and follow the same ethical standards. Both are not ashamed of there alcoholic addiction. Both are not faithful to there spouses. Which is more advanced?
We need to think over as to what set of ethics are we trying to evolve.