Who's your daddy now?

Regarding the previous post, I found this. Fifty years of government educational posters, a few of them priceless.

It's important to note, most of the above is targeted toward the military while at-war (beware the clap!). Here, the government has a legitimate justification for these campaigns. However, now-a-days, where once there might simply have been some silly poster, more and more often social sensibilities are being enforced with governmental punishments (seat belt & helmet laws, smoking, etc.), or otherwise, the government is spending our tax dollars trying to direct our decisions (food, drugs, smoking, etc.). When a group calls for these laws and programs, and thus force them and their costs on all of society, they usurp the right to self-determination of those they impose the programs on.

The government, as an institution created by man, should not be able to take actions that would not be permissible for a person to do on their own. Imagine your neighbor coming up to your car and telling you you owe him $500 for not wearing your seat-belt, then if you refuse to pay, throwing you in a cage in his garage. Not cool? Well seat-belt laws are an example of the above, perpetrated by an entire society on a few individuals. Self-defense, on the other hand is a right few deny individuals have. Our police and courts, when operating properly, are an expression of our cooperating in establishing a system of common self-defense. Our military is the same, but directed against foreign enemies.