[Steve_Seattle]

Just to give one illustration of my point: If a man and woman voluntarily commit adultery, and this adultery leads to the breakup of one or more marriages, there are numerous possible consequences for society. One or more of the abandoned partners may go on welfare; there may be children who need foster care or who later develop behavioral problems stemming from the divorce that require medical or police intervention; there will be public court costs associated with the divorce; publically-paid social workers may have to monitor treatment of the children and look after their welfare; police and the courts may be called in to enforce visitation rights or other terms of the divorce. And so on. The states spend billions on this sort of thing every year. Private behavior has public consequences and leads to public expenditures. You can say "stop spending the money," but you have no idea what that might do to society. In saying this, I am not saying put police in bedrooms, I am saying it is false to say it is "nobody's business" - as a moral principle - what goes on in private.

[steve-b]

Just to give one illustration of my point: If a man and woman voluntarily commit adultery go driving, and this adultery drive leads to the breakup death of one or more marriages of them, there are numerous possible consequences for society. One or more of the abandoned bereaved partners may go on welfare; there may be children who need foster care or who later develop behavioral problems stemming from the divorce death that require medical or police intervention; there will be public court costs associated with the divorce accident; publically-paid social workers may have to monitor treatment of the children and look after their welfare

Really, you must try harder. This is too easy!

[Old Professer]

Every dime every government can get, every government will spend - it doesn't matter what the reason - if necessary, they will hire people to spend money on finding ways to spend money.

Not a penny would be saved if everybody in the world woke up honest tomorrow morning.