[Know your rights]

Hey, if you don't want the government to decide what irrational behavior might be, then what about me?

I'll figure it out for you, and if you qualify, chain you to my basement wall for whatever period of time is necessary to bring you around to a rational point of view.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Now, tell me about that government part. I always love to hear how the government would never permit me to do that!

Government preventing you from chaining me to your basement wall is a considerably narrower mandate than them generally deciding what is irrational behavior ... if you're implying a contradiction, it's not there.

[muawiyah]

You're trying to cop out of this. You made a very generalized claim, to wit: government stay out because government is evil, and now in the face of a specific action, to wit: me chaining you to the wall in my basement, you don't want to argue the utility of your general statement.

This sort of argument would have never been allowed back in the day FUR SHUR (and you'd still be chained to that wall).