>"It is a good thing to stop people from doing bad things." Vague statement. You're talking about stopping people from doing what you (or others, all besides

>"It is a good thing to stop people from doing bad things." Vague statement. You're talking about stopping people from doing what you (or others, all besides the person in question) have decided is a "bad" thing. You fail to realize that you are working off different definitions of "good" and "bad". Those are value judgements, and by definition almost always subjective. E.g. The OP you are responding to probably has a definition of "good" and "bad" that takes into account victimless crimes, thus precluding all the "bad" from actually being "bad" if it is self-inflicted. Whereas, it seems you have a definition of "bad" that blanketly covers anything detrimental to an individual, self-inflicted or otherwise. It's no wonder that the one group criticizes the other for slippery slopes and "where will you stop". Because you've drawn arbitrary lines, leading right back to the idea of subjective value judgements regarding "bad". Personally, I hate arbitrary lines and definitions. Irreducible first-principles should be used to derive more complex ideas and constructs; and that is imperative if we are ever to have a truly fair and free society.