I think you know the difference as well as I do.
The idea of a "nanny state" is fairly well-defined, and few people are stupid enough to think that it involves reasonable and objective laws.
An interesting aside: If there were no laws against driving on the wrong side of the road--an example I constantly see--how many people do you think would do it?
A government that is authorized to control anything will eventually try to control everything. This is human nature, and the reason the Constitution was written the way it originally was.
Most countries have to learn this the hard way.