Antinomianism is an opposite extreme to legalism.
Whereas legalism may lead to moral degeneracy from arrogance and “self-righteousness”, antinomianism may lead to immoral degeneracy, such as lasciviousness and lawlessness.
Very true. Hence, the appeal of antinomianism. Let me cite a verse from THIS POEM by Rudyard Kipling:
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."