But actually, crime IS crime, in important ways. Put it this way; marijuana can be a "gateway drug" without being addictive, because people who are willing to b

But actually, crime IS crime, in important ways. Put it this way; marijuana can be a "gateway drug" without being addictive, because people who are willing to break the law and social norms to do one thing are the kind of people who might break the law and social norms to do another thing; it's correlation in that case, though. To extent the analogy, maybe now the marijuana user's child begins using marijuana because their parents did, but then they move on to hard drugs. Their willingness to break the law and social norms in one way made them more open to doing so in another way. Same thing here; if you create too many victimless crimes, children of 'crime' may grow up to do crimes that actually have victims.