That is hardly gross misbehavior. Your pettiness makes you sound like the liberal you claim me to be.
Meanwhile, may I ask what part of morality does not redound to the general welfare of society?
None of it -- but we're not talking about morality and the general welfare of society, but the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT's role in enforcing laws to punish what it gages to be "immoral" in the name of promoting the general welfare of society.
To some people, smoking cigarettes or getting drunk is immoral and therefore harmful to the general welfare of society. To others, owning guns is immoral and harmful to the general welfare of society. To yet others, myself included, owning guns, smoking cigarettes, and getting drunk are all personal rights that the our government in the United States was written to RESPECT. There are plenty of laws that promote the general welfare by punishing people who engage in actual CRIMES like theft, murder, fraud, and assault.