What are the legitimate functions of government?

[jaguar]

My point was that the more interactino yo uahve with government, hte larger role you are going to play in hwo it operates.
What a government is meant, and not menat to legislate is often set out in consitutional boundries. hte problem with a decocracy i tht is is menat to represent the majroity, no matter how stupid and selfish they happen to be....

I don't need a law to tell me how to brush my teeth or tie my shoes. I don't need a law to tell me what I can and cannot do with things I have purchased - if I want to make a copy of my CD so the original basically sits as a "backup" and doesn't get scratched, then that's nobody else's business, and doing so should not mean that I am liable to arrest.

Your example is a contraversial one, while i do agree with you woudl you prefer if governments didi not legislate copyright? It get murky.