re: This is why I could never be a policeman.

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I don't think this is a very good justification for something that you are going to demand people adhere to.

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I don't demand that anyone adhere to anything. If your life doesn't affect my life, then live it as you wish.

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Granted, it's an extreme point of view, but hopefully you can see - even if you strongly disagree - that for most of us it comes out of concern for individual liberty and there is a strong history of reasoned, and philosophical motivation at the idea's core.

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The Libertarians I associate with understand the need for government and a Constitution that governs it. It's the size of that government and its degree of intrusion into our lives that we object to most.

The best kind of government, especially in a nation as big and diverse as is ours, includes strong local government, moderate state government and, weakest of all, federal government. That was the case when America was founded.

Things change with time. There is no hope that we could ever return to the way government existed when America began. The nation would have to be broken up.

We all have to function within our system as it is and work to change it if we disagree with it. We can't, as in the example of this thread's subject, declare ourselves to be apart from that system and not expect consequences.