Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.
I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.
We are a nation of laws, and breaking those laws have consequences.
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