Role of limited government Now, behind all that mass of contradictory thinking there is a germ of truth.
People are bad.
Bad behavior should be controlled and punished, but government frequently looks for broad based and easy fixes. Resulting legislation yields a lot of collateral harms, one of which could be that the bad go both uncontrolled and unpunished. Political liberals often display this ability to take some sound reason and then find a profoundly wrong way to act upon that reason. Conservatives, by the way, are not so innocent, either. I'm not antigovernment.