> The penalties for these crimes are already extremely severe. Exactly, so why not help people make better choices by letting them know that they're much more

> The penalties for these crimes are already extremely severe. Exactly, so why not help people make better choices by letting them know that they're much more likely to be caught? Also, to put things in perspective, grand theft-type crimes were historically (and currently, in some fundamentalist regimes) punished by hanging, amputation of ears or hands, or flogging. The punishments today are tender loving care by comparison.