[DrPhil]

These topics beg conservative-moderate-liberal questions:

1. What are the roles of state and federal governments?

2. When do things that sound good in theory (or in small doses) absolutely suck in practice (or in large doses)?

3. Should the people who run state and federal governments "let" people potentially be their own detriment if people insist on being free and absent of government intervention (even if that means creating misery and eventually wallowing in the misery created)?

4. Should the people who run state and federal governments save people from themselves either through prevention/protection or through rescuing them if their freedom bites them in the ass?