The “private sphere” should be larger
Suggested by DavidH and tagged civil liberties, freedom, regulation, rights. Comment.
The big idea
The "private sphere" is supposed to that area of each person's life where legislators have a very restricted right to intrude. But much recent legislation seems to have intruded ever deeper into the personal sphere. Inevitably this has meant that legislators have had to choose which group of people's personal choices, views, right etc are right… and how far to limit the people who are "wrong".
A more generous view of what constitutes a person's "personal sphere" would allow legislators to provide rights for each group without having to impinge so much on the rights of other groups, where their interests and freedoms might conflict.
It would, however, require people to tolerate, and respect, the right of other people to be "wrong"!
Why does this matter?
Intrusion deeper into the private sphere has generated a lot of largely unnecessary conflict, upset, paperwork and wasted time – due to regulation that prioritizes conflicting rights and/or even defines who is right and who is wrong.