I'm trying to get a handle on your thought processes. First, it appears that you feel I shouldn't express a viewpoint that isn't held by the majority. Second you imply that the the majority determines what is right and what is wrong. Well I disagree with both points. I don't give a rat's backside what the majority thinks, and second that are moral absolutes, and what is right and wrong is not determined by whatever the majority of idiots thinks. After all the majority wanted Klinton for president for 8 years.
"Thou shalt not steal" is , at least to me, one of the moral absolutes. It doesn't matter if the stealing if being done by an unorganized petty thief or the worst gang of all, the government, it's still stealing, and I would like to see the constitutional authority that grants the government the power to rob me to make "bike paths" Like you I will probably never use them. Unlike you, I don't see that taking the money that I earned to squander on parks, or bike paths that I won't use has any moral justification. Unlike you, I don't have the perverted liberal definition of "selfishness." According to you "selfish" is wanting to keep the money I worked for, and "unselfish" is a gang of self appointed thieves taiking my earnings at gunpoint and squandering them on something they want.
If you want to worship government go ahead, but that sort of attitude is not conservatism, it's statism or fascism or marxism depending on the details.
Just out of curiosity; how much do you voluntarily contribute to the government above and beyond your taxes? After all if you think government spending is such a good thing then you should give them even more of your money than they demand. I personally only yield what I am forced to.
there are many legitimate areas where the only entity able to provide a community service is the community government.
You are completey wrong on this you are indeed very much "confused" but you should try to get over it, and I'll even help. The only legitimate areas for government action are those defined by the constitution. The constitution is the basic contract between the citizens and the government and anything that the government does beyond this is both unconstitutional and immoral. Law is just a tool of the government. Generally the law is whatever the government wants it to be and is in any case meaningless when you consider that there are over 140,000 pages in the federal register today. No on can possibly know all of that and it's sole purpose is to let the government screw anyone the bureaucrats target (like poor Martha Stewart who is being prosecuted so that the government attorney can make a name for himself like that a$$hole Gulliani) rather than to protect the property and freedom of the citizens.