It if was deadly to ourselves or dangerous to those around us, we'd have made it part of or identities and enshrined it to law years ago.

Correct me with actual facts if I'm wrong, but that's all Live Free or Die means in this state.

Population older than usual. Northeast laws in general still crippled by old puritan thinking, although the more liberal states nearby have seemed to move past that to their benifit little by little.