Sounds like a pretty good synopsis of basic conservative ideology to me.
Another bong hitting liberaltarian, then.
Just a rhetorial question, I wonder what you think of Edmond Burke, then. I guess a nanny stater old fogey.
A nation without morals turns into anarchy and mayhem, with people shortly clamoring for relief from the mayhem, which leads to an iron fist government.
It’s quite simple.
The less personal restraint, the more outside is eventually “needed”. As many of the founding fathers noted, this government works only with a moral and virtuous citiznery. With citizens acting like beasts of the field (no insult to animals intended), there will be government intervention. THe kind none of us like or want.
Example: With out of wedlock births now around 40% in the US (and just a few years ago it was 30%, and among blacks its’ around 80%), children grow up into feral animals. Obviously not all, but many. So, who will keep these feral humans clothed, fed, educated and so on? Who will pay for the prisons to hold them? Who will protect the citizens from them?
A braindead liberaltarian (but I repeat myself) would say - well, let them die, let homeowners and business owners protect themselves, etc. No need for prisons, people will “take care” of them. In a few years the problem will solve itself.
So, you want mayhem and blood on the streets with citizens taking the law into their own hands. Or something.
Basically, you liberaltarians have slogans, catch phrases, and nothing more. Nothing.
Now, in my case, I do have ideas which I have repeatedly stated here on FR - about the drug situation, the prison situaiton, etc. But liberaltarians don’t like them because liberaltarians have the mentality of 12 year old boys who read comic books and think that the comic books are real life.