kind of like "you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't get caught".. right?

I don't quite understand the duplicity of people's statement when they say "I don't want the government interfering with my life", when the government has already done so...

Does this statement imply that the speaker does not want law enforcement, municipal services, fire protection, ability to occupy/use land, defense against invaders, and other things offered (or more correctly "taken for granted") to citizens?

Or does it mean that "I only want the government to impose my sense of "right" on everyone else"?

That people have to live and interact together in some fashion virtually requires that some individual rights may have to be compromised in order to promote some sense of harmony, does it not?

I think there are very few who live completely "off the grid/radar" (maybe nomadic singlehand sailors or mountain men?) and are totally self-reliant.

sorry for getting so far off. I need to brush up on my spanish/cuban. Maybe start watching those Novellas on Univision?