Ideally yes. But clearly all the examples I listed and many dozens more show that, at times, for the greater good we have to stop people doing certain things.

Would you argue we should teach empower people to be more responsible and let them all own surface to air missiles?

Surely we should empower people to be healthy and make smart choices and let companies put arsenic in food to save money. Let people build homes with asbestos insulation because it’s cheap and works and let people connect their house to the gas main because it will encourage people to be resourceful ?

I’m all for encouraging people to make good choices, but the consequences are very obvious in certain circumstances.