I think I understand what you are saying.
If we are going to function as a society and live together, there has to be SOME RULES and boundries. Otherwise we have anarchy. That's the only thought holding me back from being a full blown Libertarian.
Maybe where we differ slightly is my one requirement for functioning in a free society is: DON'T HARM ANYONE ELSE.
And if the Gubmint claims you are harming someone, it better be irrefutable and without question...no junk science or bogus studies about SHS allowed.
Otherwise, liberals can conjure up a multitude of reasons as to why your freedoms should be curtailed.
After all, if that Bacon Double Cheeseburger you're eating causes Type 2 Diabetes you are driving up MY/OUR health care premiums and taxes to pay for your care. Now you are no longer hurting only yourself, you're hurting me too.
That's going to be (is) their argument. The slippery slope just had a 659 gallon bucket of KY dumped on it.
Exactly, and those rules and boundries go well beyound what is legal and illegal. Our problem is that too many people now think that good and bad, right and wrong (if they even exist) are deliniated by law and how it can be bent to one's whim. Because of that we are out of control as a society.