If this is your metric for what should involve government, then my guess you do not support the idea of Limited Government at all. See when I talk about threat

If this is your metric for what should involve government, then my guess you do not support the idea of Limited Government at all. See when I talk about threats to other, I am talking about direct, articulable threats, not second or third order events that may have an impact under some circumstances When I say the government has an ethical mandate to protect me from others, I mean protect me from physically assaulting me, from stealing my property, etc. Not generalized adverse effects that may happen latter down the road if enough other people also happen to do the same thing. "The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all. " -- Frédéric Bastiat