Reply #7: To answer your initial question...

[FredStembottom]

We "Busybodies" represent a group that has simply never been convinced that the social equivalent of Free Trade leads to the promised land.

In the 60's it was Free Love that would lead us all to a garden of Eden. I remember the claims. I was there. Now I see that no Eden appeared. While an explosion of STD's, divorce-ruined families and the sexualization of children did appear in the time since.

I am no researcher - I have no statistics - but I am damn sure that the utopia that "freeing all you repressions, man" was supposed to bring... didn't arrive.

And I am constantly amazed that lefties (like me) who see that the total lack of rules on the economic side of things leads to corruption, exploitation and powerlessness for millions can be so blind to what a total lack of social rules might bring.

None of this is science. I just always remember what gets promised at the beginning of "revolutions" and compare that with the actual results - and Total Freedom ain't looking good!