I used that as a tantalizing example; I honestly don't know, but I suspect it would be fun to confront most libertarians with a choice between supporting "government interference" or opposing "tort reform. " The latter is a textbook case of government trying to tell the public "we know better" with the added bonus of flying in the face of the spirit if not the letter of the US Constitution, which, for SOME reason, states in its Seventh Amendment that, "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. "

The ultimate government of the United States (i.e. the Constitution, not any elected official or body) very clearly places nearly all authority in civil trials with juries. Yet because juries often award victims of malpractice and/or negligence (or their surviving dependents) millions in damages, a host of politicians and their industry patrons who routinely castigate "big government" argue that should be overruled, usually on the grounds juries are too easily manipulated (i.e. stupid) or vindictive (i.e. greedy) to be trusted. It didn't originate with malpractice and isn't confined to it, but when those in the healthcare debate say the solution to rising costs is tort reform that's invariably what they mean, because the same private insurers raising medical insurance premiums are just as happily raising malpractice premiums passed along to consumers (which, of course, means they have to raise medical premiums again. )

That aside, qualifiers exist for a reason: The make inherently inaccurate generalities a lot less erroneous, because they allow for exceptions. I don't mind speaking of God in absolutes, but I won't be comfortable doing it with temporal human matters until you show me a perfect human and/or world. My posts are often long for this reason, but I still get the most grief for painting with too broad a brush (I did once catch hell for verbosity, but I still say if I have to pick I'll choose the latter every time. )