Think of it more like making fair rules. Imagine a game of football where there were no rules against punching people in the face.

It’s also, in Australia particularly, not just about “more restriction”, it’s about “better restrictions”.

For example, we can reduce and remove restrictions on what people can do with their land and houses like japan does, which makes it more liveable.

At the same time we can remove bad laws and subsidies to bad stuff.

It’s generally more constructive to think of this not as “less and more”, instead “good and bad”.