A really small government position would hold that the government shouldn’t interfere with you when you are robbing a convenience store.
There are limits to the validity of the small government position. It isn’t a moral absolute.
Speaking of moral absolutes...
Very unlike the belief that kids deserve and need two married parents of different genders. That is a moral absolute.
At its’ inception, our now-dead Constitutional Republic was founded on the idea of small government, a concept made possible by a people who were morally-constrained, that is, self-controlled. Today, increasing numbers of Americans, from inside-the-beltway to the street level are amoral and out-of-control. To them, small government means no rules whatsoever.