Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
Laws are to reduce the crimes that would be committed by semi-scrupulous people.
Laws cannot prevent crimes by unscrupulous people.
What do you mean by unscrupulous?

Implicit from the principles we're taught in economics courses is that the only type of person that could be unaffected by outcomes are the sufficiently mentally insane such that they can't even know their preferences.