No matter how enfeebled we make the government, there will always be people crying oppression. If the government relinquishes control over one issue, we'll just find some other line to draw. Frankly, some people won't be content untill there's no authority at all. We need a powerful government because many people are idiots individually, and all people are idiots in large angry mobs. If we didn't have a government to enforce the morals of the people, and that's all laws are, then we'd have large angry lynch mobs doing it. And what differentiates a "basic law" that governments should enforce, from a moral issue they should stay away from? Is it just a majority oppinion? Is abortion not a basic law just because of the number of people on both sides? How many people would have to support for example, murder, before it stopped being a basic law, and became a moral issue?