> The real answer is that we need a society where people restrain themselves, so that the law doesn't have to do the restraining. Fundamentally I agree. Once w

> The real answer is that we need a society where people restrain themselves, so that the law doesn't have to do the restraining. Fundamentally I agree. Once we stop relying on people’s self regulation and basic decency we have already failed. Overflowing prisons is a telling sign of that failure. I guess one benefit of US being so large and states and municipalities having the ability to create their own laws, is that eventually we might learn what works best after observing results. How did the reforms in San Francisco or LA work? If they worked well, other states might rush to copy. If if didn’t, at least it’s isolated to a few areas.