Why do people advocate bans and legal sanctions on anything they don't like?

Question

It happened with alcohol, then they decided that was a bad idea.
They did it with drugs, and they STILL think it's a good idea..
They're beginning it with cigarettes (banned indoors, certain municipalities banned all smoking unless in one's home.)
Food has it's advocates
Many people still believe in faith healing and want EVERYTHING that effects you to be banned.

Whats going on? Since when did government become an instrument of enforcing personal morality? Even medieval societies had no drug bans or protectionist measure as punitive as those we have today.
Of course that is hyperbole, but you can see what I'm saying.
Why doesn't anybody believe in FREEDOM anymore? We totally agree with ever more intrusive acts by government, just because TV news has made life so sensationalistic and hyperimportant. The majority of citizens take the excited media as truth.
It's real easy to make up a problem and offer a "solution" that ultimately empowers the powers that be.

Answer 1

Well, drugs ARE bad. That being said, so are lots of things. You can thank the so called "liberals" for deciding what is good for humanity and what is not, as well as taking away our freedom of choice and speech. Dang, you can't even say "Christmas" on TV commercials anymore. If liberals would mind their own dang business, this world would be a better place.

Answer 2

The problem is that people are basically sheep, and will follow, for the most part, what others will do first. If someone says that cars are bad for the environment, then people will rally behind it. However, if this is true, and cars are killing the planet and people with pollution, then why did the governments of the world bow before the oil companies to stop production on electric cars?
The answer is simply money. Alcohol was banned and then reinstated for that reason. First, people fought to have it banned, then, when the tax dollars off of those products disappeared, suddenly the ban was lifted. While the health lobbyists have pushed cigarettes to the point of idiocy, they will never be completely outlawed because of the amount of money that the government makes from them. Anti smoking ads are paid for with tax moneys made through the sale of cigarettes.
It really has nothing to do with FREEDOM, but related only to what can and cannot bring in money,

Answer 3

All "freedoms" have to have restrictions in a civilized society.
Obviously, you are not "free" to drink and drive, or smoke in public places or use or sell illegal drugs. These laws are enacted to protect the public at large. For instance:
Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in this nation that can't use alcohol responsibly - and the costs to society are very great - property damage and deaths and injuries from driving while drunk, domestic violence and crime and so on. Why would the law makers and general public want to add yet another means for these people to demonstrate their total lack of responsibility and disregard for other peoples safety - for their own personal gratification?
And, who's going to pay for the incarceration, medical expenses, rehabilitation, pain and suffering and so on for the small minority who would invariably abuse these substances - you guessed it - you and me - and I don't even use them.

Answer 4

u are in a Representative government and you delegated your power away to them~~~~~~~them want to protect u from u and also protect against u making them look bad by not having enough sense to come in out of the rain, they will fix that some day but until then they expect you to get sick and they don't have a cure for it yet so hopefully they will one of these day do the final law and that will be to tell u where to hang the toilet paper on the wall, which wall and how high up and what color, aren't you Glad u use dial?

Answer 5

You have the freedom to ban freedom.