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This issue has been fought out in the United States for a long time. The right of the State to regulate health, safety and morals versus the right of the individual to do what he wants. For a while, and on some issues, the libertarians won, See Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905) (State's worker's rights statutes unconstitutional), Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), State law banning contraception unconstitutional.  That tide has shifted in some cases and not in others.  Near as I can tell without doing work, Lochner is long overruled, but Griswold is good law, and the underpinnings of Roe vs. Wade.  In Griswold, the Court noted a narrow exception to the States' broad power to regulate health, safety and morals.  That is, the Griswold court invented a right to be free from the government intrusion into the most intimate matters of your life.  This inherent privacy provision isn't written on the face of the Ninth Amendment, it had never been heard of before, and I'm pretty sure that the Griswold court made it up.
So, the debate here is where government obtains authority to enforce its moral code onto others.
Here goes:  Matthew Henry, in his book "Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Entire Bible" states that without law, men would be as the fish in the sea, with the powerful consuming the weaker.
Government is necessary to keep people from acting like cavemen.
Note that the government does not require a moral high ground or any one person's approval to do what it does.  I once tried to help defend a man who claimed he didn't have to pay his income tax because it was unconstitutional.  He went to jail.  He also didn't believe that the government had any right to jail him.
If you are a libertarian, America is still more free than a lot of places that you might have lived.  You can say whatever you want, you can believe whatever you want, the taxes aren't very high, you can keep guns, you can have a jury trial, etcetera.