Restrictive social policies

Guidelines and laws relating to individual freedom and commercial practices which are unnecessarily restrictive. In many instances these restrictions or warnings are patronizing or over-protective, and their establishment and monitoring consumes public funds which are wrung from underserviced areas.

A city restaurant in the USA was unable to use its private lawn for outdoor dining because the state law forbade the serving of alcohol if there was not "a high wall or fence" between the drink and the passerby. On the nearby corner any teenager could buy street drugs.

1. In so-called "civilized" societies, whilst faced with clear neglect of public services, one encounters a burgeoning amount of official rules, regulations and gratuitous advice. One can be but dismayed at the way administrative paternalism has spilled over into the entire field of public life -- our eating, drinking, smoking, driving, and even bedroom habits.

1. Restrictions on freedom
2. Over-regulation
3. Inappropriate policies
4. Excessive government control
5. Denial of control over own life

1. Compulsory unionism
2. Compulsory identity cards
3. Compulsory heterosexuality
4. Compulsory health care

1. Unfulfilled aspirations of economic life
2. Regulation discourages care
3. Infringement of privacy
4. Grievances of citizens
5. Discriminatory imposition of standards
6. Backlash against repeated warnings

1. Victimless crime
2. Restrictive legislation
3. Proscribed thinking and behaviour
4. Political partisanship
5. Paternalism
6. Over-organization
7. Over-centralization
8. Moral pretension
9. Individualistic welfare responsibility
10. Coercive legislation

1. Situationism
2. Haphazard forms of social ethics
3. Accessibility of toxic materials

1. Politicization of health standards
2. Parental over-protectiveness

1. Reinventing citizenship
2. Meeting social obligations
3. Increasing government regulations
4. Implementing citizen rights and responsibilities
5. Forcing participation in social processes
6. Applying social restrictions to courtship
7. Applying social restrictions

1. Restriction
2. Overcomplex
3. Gratuitous
4. Compulsiveness
5. Counterproductivity