We don't send every person to prison, on the basis that one of them might do something wrong. Yet, despite the fact that many of us are capable of living responsibly and independently, we are forced to live under Government dictate.

Shouldn't we have a tier of society where those capable of living in peace are free to go about their business?
If you demonstrate that you're incapable of upholding the standard, then you get to go and live under Government.
And if you can't live there, to prison...