Lots of people, even lots of FReepers want to live under a government that regulates their lives unnecessarily and excessively. They want a federal government that does more than was given to it to do and they want a state/local government that punishes people they don’t like. They, of course, should not be punished and they don’t think the government would ever turn on them.
Boy, you got that right. Just the other day someone here applauded a law making strip club illegal in Iceland.
You may or not like the idea of strip clubs, but you certainly don’t have to patronize one.
There are many here (particularly the so called social conservatives) who - like the left - always think “there oughta be a law”.
I would gladly trade them to the left in exchange for their anti-government types.
There are inherently damaging activities that we currently treat as ‘private.’ This is where the libertarian view loses the religious conservatives. Libertarians believe that just leaving us all alone would be a good thing.
Like it or not, the Christian worldview made this country great because of its religious conservatism, including not only the right to the fruits of individual achievement, but the recognition of certain societal taboos against ‘private’ behaviors that actually break down society itself.
Religious conservatives believe that there are things done in private that are damaging to society as a whole, like adultery.