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No, there is no logic behind the idea that people are better off with the government protecting the people against themselves by punishing them for behavior the government doesn't agree with. Just like the people are not better off by the government subsidizing market activity so that people do what the government wants them to do.
There's a difference between something that "the government disagrees with" (i.e. censorship) and something that has been objectively been empirically demonstrated to be harmful to the populace (i.e. pollution).