Lawmakers decide how you should live,

all the time. But why?

Radley Balko of the Cato Institute can't understand it either:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3747

There are plenty of laws that protect me from...well, me. It makes no sense. But I guess that's why I need other people telling me how to live. For instance: seat belt laws. Huh? That makes as much sense to me as writing a law that says no jumping out of trees headfirst.