The Boxer

[Rockin Robbins]

And that, August, is an excellent point. It's time that we agree that our lives are ours, to spend as we wish. The default position of man should be freedom, with restraints on that freedom only in case of injury to others.

Yes you may solve a problem by taking away someone's freedom to act in a way you believe is harmful to themselves. But the law of unintended consequences takes over when you do. For every intended consequence of that action there will be three unintended consequences. Two of them will be bad. In this case one of the unintended consequences is that you are granting others the right to deny YOUR freedom. And I can tell you that some of that denial will definitely be unjust. The solution is worse than the problem.