Nope, I'm in favor of the actual people deciding what they want to be legal/illegal. For instance: In my very rural very small town a man bought a commercial building and planned a bar and strip joint. In this very small (three blocks long) town, there are already about 7 bars and lots of fatalities (many involving liquor) and the road in and out of this valley is notoriously dangerous.
There was a city council meeting with the hugest attendence in years, with every single person except this man and one or two supporters who did not want him to be given a liquor/entertainment license. The city council had to give him the license because - why? Because the state mandates that there can be no moral reason to disallow any business licence. No moral values are allowed to influence any licensing in this wonderful state. Then a petition circulated garnering over 600 signatures in a week. Every issue of the local paper had about 10 letters each week, the vast majority against the opening of the strip joint.
A similar thing happened when a porno shop opened on the main street, where middle school and high school kids walk by every school day. The state legislature (at that time run by Democrats, btw) mandated that porn shops have a right to promote porn everywhere and anywhere, just not right next to a school.
So what if the local people who actually live here overwhelmingly DO NOT WANT PORN SHOPS AND STRIP JOINTS IN THE DOWNTOWN OF THEIR SMALL TOWN. Big state government has shoved this down our throats whether we want it or not.
This is Big Government.
Luckily, the strip joint entrepeneur ran out of money.
And that's not the government...how exactly?
Big state government has shoved this down our throats whether we want it or not.
No, individual rights forced this down your throat. If you didn't want him to have the land so badly, why didn't you pool your resources as a community and buy the land?
You are a poster child for what I was talking about: You are perfectly willing to let Government do something that free markets and communities should do.
Luckily, the strip joint entrepeneur ran out of money.
Wow, free market worked. Who knew?