Well... the goal was respectable - to make a society less abusive. But I am afraid that implementation actually made the environment more abusive. (It's my impression from far outside. IMHO.) It was an attempt to formalize what should be a matter of personal conscience and tact. To make public and official what should be private. And now even more of the abusion comes from the publicity of the privacy (if you understand what I mean ). More brutal pressure of the society on the personality.

The final result of this way (making public from private) one can find in Orwell's "1984". A great book and very universal warning. I have a feeling that now USA much closer to "1984" then any other country. Those mad issues of politcorrectness in USA provide me with a strong deja vue feeling. They are much like mad issues of official ideology in USSR.

Again it is no more then preliminary IMHO: I have never been in USA.