You’d have to use some pretty extreme measures like permanent removing every thief and every person buying copper from thieves from society so they can never st

You’d have to use some pretty extreme measures like permanent removing every thief and every person buying copper from thieves from society so they can never steal again. Anything less isn’t going to stop it. See drugs… the death penalty for drug use is extremely effective. It’s also horrific but hasn’t stopped us before, so why should it stop us now?