People who think these types of laws "don't affect anyone else" are idiots. When we all have to pay for your stupidity - then it does affect us all.
We have a government to enforce societal rules, so the rest of us don't have to.
Do you believe we might not need a "good little hall monitor" to stop people from murdering each other? Or from stealing from each other? Or from burning each other's house down?
Or should maybe the government do the job.
Isn't that why it exists?
Or maybe you are one of these people who think the "evil government" should not do any of these things?
If so, I bet you'd change your tune if your house was on fire and you wanted the fire department to come and put it out.
These are the arguments of a gullible boob who yearns for governmental control over every aspect of society.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt
If you're happy and you know it, clank your chains...
I repeat again....
Where does it end?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1638790/posts?page=33#33
MURDER is the equivalent of NOT WEARING SEAT BELT? Absurd.
MURDER is DIRECTLY VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER. So are all the other capital crimes you cite.
This trickle-down effect rationalization is utter nonsense - it means we can make laws on EVERY SINGLE THING WE DO. Because IT ALL AFFECTS SOMEONE SOMEHOW DOWN THE ROAD!