[microgood]

You do not have a God given right to do harm to yourself and laws may legitimately be put forward and enforced which prevent such acts in accordance with the cultural norms of our civilization.

That is the kind of thinking that has transformed this nation from a constitutitional republic based on individual freedom to a democracy based on mob rule.

[Antoninus]

That is the kind of thinking that has transformed this nation from a constitutitional republic based on individual freedom to a democracy based on mob rule.

Go read some actually literature from the 1780s and get back to me. Recall that even Thomas Jefferson, the so-called "deist" signed a law as governor of Virginia that made the punishment for sodomy castration. The founding fathers were not libertarians.