Even the smallest government intervention leads to problems which justify the call for more and more intervention. Free market competition is a learning process which brings about results which no one can know in advance. There is no way to tell how much harm has been done and will continue to be done by political restrictions. It provides us the opportunity to make things better, though it doesn't guarantee results. The use of coercion to compel virtue eliminates its possibility, for to be moral, an act must be uncoerced.
Freedom of choice is a necessary ingredient for the achievement of virtue.
Whenever there is a chance for the good life, the risk of a bad one must also be accepted. Epictetus, the Stoic, urged men to defy tyrants in such a way as to cast doubt on the necessity of government itself. If the government directed them to do something that their reason opposed, they were to defy the government. If it told them to do what their reason would have told them to do anyway, they did not need a government. Just as we do not require a State to dictate what is right or wrong in growing food, manufacturing textiles, or in steel-making, we do not need a government to dictate standards and procedures in any field of endeavor.