The issue of collectivist residue clinging to my psyche aside, do you argue, then, that implementing laws and public policies that either passively allow or publicly endorse destructive individual behaviors has no destructive effect on a given society?
Government has no power to implement any law, except for the powers we, the people, specifically give to the government. If we don't give the government the power to legislate in a certain arena, government doesn't have the power to legislate in that arena---plain and simple. Only a statist believes government has a blanket power to make law provided it be for the "common good"---not a conservative.