“‘Why limit the government’s benevolent providence to the protection of the individual’s body only?’ Mises asks. ‘Is not the harm a man can inflict on his mind and soul even more disastrous than any bodily evils? Why not prevent him from reading bad books and seeing bad plays, from looking at bad paintings and statues and from hearing bad music?’ When it comes to bad habits, vices, and immoral behavior of others, in contrast to the state, which does everything by ‘compulsion and the application of force,’ Mises considered tolerance and persuasion to be the rules. ‘A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper,’ Mises explains.”
http://mises.org/daily/6563/Mises-Explains-the-Drug-War
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