Would politics be less hateful if each side wasn't trying so hard to control the other side?

[crmoore]

What if all we made law was the necessities? The ones everyone more or less agrees on? Outlawing murder, theft, identity theft, trespassing, assault, etc?

[Sixgunsound]

If we actually outlawed theft, and applied it equally to everyone, government would go broke in the morning.

[Guy13]

It is an impossibility as this is what a fallen world full of fallen people feels like...

[Anonymous]

Any criminal law you pass is going to be challenged in court for being "too aggressively enforced against minorities."