are you left,right or centre?

[Tiberius]

Why not? What's your criterion in this? Why is your market not totally free so everybody can make his own shitty decisions.

My criteria is the same as most Libertarians. Governments are there to protect the people, to serve the people. Emergency services are there to protect and serve, and they should be government controlled. As I already said, the laws are made by the government, and it makes perfect sense to have a police force that works for the government to uphold those laws.

A dose of common sense needs to be in place as well. Can you imagine what would happen if the police was privatized? Companies like Google and Microsoft could go around throwing people in their own jails for any reason.

I agree. But you leave out the cases in which free choice can not yet or no longer fully be excercised.

How do you mean?

OK. Since you provide no age limit with that, at what age can free choice on this be consumed?

I think these restrictions should be the same age as the age of voting. I'd like to see that set at 18, since this is generally an age at which people are mature enough to make rational decisions, and the age at which people are considered "adults" (at least where I come from).

This goes for smoking, drinking, driving, etc.