In the first two paragraphs of Common Sense, Thomas Paine wrote:

“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

There is a common-law principle that states that for there to be a crime, there has to be a victim (corpus delicti). Without a victim there is no crime. There can be no “victim-less crimes.” There is also a principle which states that for a contract to be valid it has to be intentionally, voluntarily, and expressly entered into. Attempting to force people to do something when they haven’t committed a crime or entered into a contract to do it, is coercion.