We lost this thing the very moment that one individual member of the species homo sapiens accepted the authoritarian assertions of another member of the species homo sapiens over his own life (which is his right), but then agreed not only to accept, but to champion, that authority over the lives of others (which is mostly decidedly not his right). Those people—you know who they are—are the apologists for every intrusion into the lives of otherwise peaceful people that has been imposed over the last [at least] ten-thousand years.

We lost this thing the very moment we allowed "the state" to define what is a crime.