Their entire culture is based around letting people believe they the right to do things many western countries consider bad, or just repressed in many countries, but it's government sanctioned 'rebellion'. Actual free thought and freedoms are linked with Nazism and far-right extremism, even when the exact opposite. It's how they maintain order. Whores and underage drinking are their bread and circuses. Germans are well-trained dogs, barking only at the appropriate times.