I guess I should have read farther before replying.
Here it is in a nut-shell...
I don't like force or coercion being used on anyone. No one has the right to harm anyone else, everyone has the right to defend themselves and live at peace. (basically the old adage of "your right to throw a punch ends at my nose.")
A starting point is to only keep "mala in se" laws and abolish all "mala prohibitum" laws.
If you believe that people need someone else to govern them, then you believe that people cannot govern themselves. If you believe that others cannot govern themselves, then you must concede that you cannot govern yourself. If you cannot govern yourself, then you cannot govern others and if you are not competent to govern yourself, then you are likewise incompetent to choose your own rulers and are especially unsuited to chose someone to rule over others. In that case, you are not qualified to vote. So don't vote, you're not qualified!
Perhaps that circular logic doesn't work for you, then think of this... There are three possibilities:
1) Everyone is good therefore no one needs anyone else to be in power to tell them what the "right" thing is to do. OK, so we can all agree
that's not the case.
2) Everyone is bad therefore putting anyone into power is only electing bad people to control other bad people and what use is that. You can argue "degrees" of bad, but that's basically every election cycle I've ever witnessed. OK, so we can all agree
that's not the case either.
2) Some people are good, some people are bad. Now we have a realistic assessment... The "good" people, by definition, will "do the right thing" and they don't need anyone to control them. The bad people want power and control over others, by definition, and (being bad) will use every means available to get that power and control. Therefore the system of putting anyone into power in such a scenario is inherently rigged so that mainly (if not exclusively) bad people will gain the power & control. Again, you can argue "degrees" of bad, but as I wrote, that's basically every election cycle I've ever witnessed. So is it
really reasonable to have a system that is inherently setup so that bad people will gain control over good people? I don't think so. Regardless of where your political leanings are, remember that it matters not which foot, left or right, the jackboot of control is on. You are still the servant/slave and the person with the jackboot is still the master. You may argue that legislating morality or "good" is acceptable to you. Then consider this:
What people fail to think about when "electing" ideologues from either side is...
Put together your most desired, most ideal law that will be vigorously enforced by government, then imagine that the person who will enforce that law is your very worst enemy.
Still think it's a "good" idea? (Having an attorney step-daughter & paralegal wife, I've learned to be cognizant that "the devil is in the details" and
anything can be twisted/interpreted to be different if those in power
want it to be interpreted differently!
)
In the Lord of the Rings trilogy the "One Ring" controls all of the other "Rings of Power". The Dark Lord Sauron needs to get the Ring in order to be all powerful. The wizard Gandalf wants the Ring to use it for good, but he realizes that the power of the Ring corrupts and no matter how powerful a wizard he is or how good he is, the Ring will corrupt him. So it is decided that the Ring must be destroyed and in order to do that Frodo, a truly good and innocent being, is given the task because he is the only one they can trust not to be corrupted by the Ring's power while completing the task of destroying the One Ring.
(Yeah, you're wondering where I'm going with this... )
The One Ring is
government. It is all-powerful over people and will always corrupt them. The debate is ageless and timeless... We must
elect someone who will use "government" power for "good" and people fall for that ploy time and time again, never realizing that
no one can control the Ring's power for good without being corrupted. The only answer was to unmake the One Ring using the fire from Mount Doom. The only solution is to destroy the power so that it can not be wielded. Unfortunately, we have no Frodo and most people still believe the lie that the power "just needs to be harnessed for
good"... which is an impossibility. Most people are brainwashed into believing that all of that power is 'necessary"! Most people can not even fathom looking into the fire of Mount Doom... into the "abyss" where all that power is destroyed. They've been brainwashed that the destruction of all that power will result in something worse... something unthinkable... something unspeakable...
Which, in reality, is called
Freedom
We're talking basically a decade after we had been integrated in the school system in the South where I attended. 
) and make comments about either my supposed "institutional racism" OR in surprise that my children play with children of other races OR in surprise that I have friends/associates who are of other races. I usually brush it off. It seems to bother my friends of various different races more than me because they feel like I've been slighted or put down. I've gotten used to it over the last nearly 40 years living here.
