Everyone wants to be left alone. Even rapists and murderers want to be left alone to rape and murder with impunity. Sometimes it is appropriate and correct that we don't leave people alone to do Evil things. Such is the basis for law: people who do Evil aren't "left alone" to do Evil.
The problem is that the law has become extremely detached from a very large percentage of the population's definition of the Good. That is the problem we have: a very large number of people who are behaving in a way they think are oriented towards the Good are now being told that they are evil and being punished for it. That does not lead us to good places.
This may be somewhat controversial.
Everyone wants to be left alone. Even rapists and murderers want to be left alone to rape and murder with impunity. Sometimes it is appropriate and correct that we don't leave people alone to do Evil things. Such is the basis for law: people who do Evil aren't "left alone" to do Evil.
The problem is that the law has become extremely detached from a very large percentage of the population's definition of the Good. That is the problem we have: a very large number of people who are behaving in a way they think are oriented towards the Good are now being told that they are evil and being punished for it. That does not lead us to good places.
This is the real paradox of tolerance.