Quote-"Is it not fundamentally more important to ensure the safety of an individual then to give them their freedom to choose when it is obviously that they are not making wise chooses but chooses that are endangering their lives??"-quote.
I believe this is the relationship government proposes to have with the populace, and I believe this is the relationship some of the populace believe they have with government.
What you describe sounds to me like a parental relationship.
Therein lies the problem...morality.
Organizational morality is terrifying.
Historically it is dysfunctional at best and a viscious schizoid combination of self-servitude and self-destruction at it's worst.
RE: I LOST !!!
The remote control.