Restrictive social policies

Name(s): 
Counterproductive social restrictions
Over-regulation of public life
Unwarranted social prohibitions
Compulsory social obligations
Gratuitous restrictions
Overcomplicated implementation of citizen rights and responsibilities
Nature 
Guidelines and laws relating to individual freedom and commercial practices which are unnecessarily restrictive. In many instances these restrictions or warnings are patronizing or over-protective, and their establishment and monitoring consumes public funds which are wrung from underserviced areas.
Incidence 
A city restaurant in the USA was unable to use its private lawn for outdoor dining because the state law forbade the serving of alcohol if there was not "a high wall or fence" between the drink and the passerby. On the nearby corner any teenager could buy street drugs.
Claim 
In so-called "civilized" societies, whilst faced with clear neglect of public services, one encounters a burgeoning amount of official rules, regulations and gratuitous advice. One can be but dismayed at the way administrative paternalism has spilled over into the entire field of public life -- our eating, drinking, smoking, driving, and even bedroom habits.
Broader 
Over-regulation
Inappropriate policies
Restrictions on freedom
Excessive government control
Denial of control over own life
Narrower 
Compulsory unionism
Compulsory health care
Compulsory identity cards
Compulsory heterosexuality
Reduces 
Situationism
Accessibility of toxic materials
Haphazard forms of social ethics
Related 
Parental over-protectiveness
Politicization of health standards
Aggravates 
Grievances of citizens [in 3 loops]
Infringement of privacy [in 6 loops]
Regulation discourages care
Backlash against repeated warnings
Discriminatory imposition of standards [in 5 loops]
Unfulfilled aspirations of economic life
Aggravated by 
Paternalism
Victimless crime
Moral pretension
Over-organization
Over-centralization
Coercive legislation
Political partisanship
Restrictive legislation
Proscribed thinking and behaviour
Individualistic welfare responsibility
Strategy(ies) 
Increasing government regulations
Reinventing citizenship
Applying social restrictions to courtship
Setting boundaries for citizen liberties
Implementing citizen rights and responsibilities
Meeting social obligations
Applying social restrictions
Forcing participation in social processes
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems