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I'd prefer that, to the extent that they get involved, government work to provide better options rather than attempt to legislate away (what some people judge to be) bad options. [1]

An analogy that I think fits is the availability of abortions. For an individual pregnant woman who wishes to terminate the pregnancy, many people [likely including her] would view the option of having an abortion as an objectively bad yet best deal available outcome. It would be preferable to a wide swath of people's opinion had she never become pregnant in the first place, via education, wider availability of free/trivial cost birth control, whatever. In aggregate, the world would be a better place if the rate of abortion was reduced via these means (less physical and emotional stress, etc).

That doesn't extend to banning abortions, for that doesn't help the particular individual woman.

[1] - It is chiefly for this reason that I prefer something like a UBI over a minimum wage law. If someone's labor is only able to create $4 of value per hour, I would rather let them choose to do that than not be allowed or be forced to do that only as an entrepreneur. To reduce the amount of desperation that might "force" someone to do that, UBI takes some of the economic pressure off.