Further to a discussion in another forum, I'm interested in people's thoughts on this issue.
Many people seem to see government as a 'good' thing. My personal inclination is that government has grown far beyond that which is necessary, and the number of secondary laws are just interference in people's lives. I'm thinking of the laws that restrict people's freedoms (speed limits, criminalisation of drug-use, curtailment of free speech) with little seeming justification other than that the government can do it, so will do it, as if to somehow justify their own existence.
Why should we allow government (which after all is made up of normal fallible human beings, albeit greedier and generally more callous than the general population) to tell us how to live our lives. If I want to do something which has no effect on anybody else, then what business is it of government to interfere?