As long as people are allowed to freely associate.
Degeneracy is a problem because people aren't allowed to freely associate. Many people are trapped in sick systems.
You can see this in widespread opposition to gun rights. People support gun control who see the gun as a way for their emotionally unstable "friends" to escalate to killing them, or who fear that their own emotional instabilities will lead to them killing themselves, or who fear that their own emotional instabilities will lead to them killing others. The idea of altering their social life so that they are not confronted with shattering instabilities is alien to many people, especially those who live in high-density urban environments.