[AllegedAlec]

\>thing A is bad, but so is thing B, so we can't criminalize thing A

Better decriminalize murder in that case.

[saberience]

Honest question: How many people do you think avoid murdering others because there is a law against it? Or another way of putting it, do you think that the reason more people don't go around murdering others is because the government wrote down somewhere "this is illegal"?

[fsckboy]

> How many people do you think avoid murdering others because there is a law against it?

if murder were legalized, the murder rate would jump, a lot.

[AllegedAlec]

No clue, but I also don't see how it's relevant to my tongue in cheek dismissive answer to OP