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Cynthetiq,
There is always the question of what rights can the government legitimately strip away from a citizen. As mentioned by another poster, most other western industrialized nations have no such law, not to mention that neither do a majority of the US states. Is this a reasonable state power? Citizens are forced to abide by the social contract no matter what so shouldn't the rights that are implicit within our social contract be inalienable from us? But we are drifting far afield from the original topic of this thread.
One last point: expecting the least powerful in a society to radically alter it is a bit unfair.
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