Exactly. The Laws of Nature are inviolable. Sooner or later the natural reaction kicks in. Divinely designed for our learning experience.
And it certainly would help a faster learning experience if the government did not subsidize bad behavior! I often say “cut off the funding and much bad fruit will wither on the vine”.
Imagine - no methadone clinics, no AFDC, no WIC, no gov funded AIDS treatments, no high school baby care rooms, etcetc.
“You play, YOU pay”.
There’s an old saying:
An intelligent person hears that fire will burn, he doesn’t stick his hand in it.
A slightly less intelligent person has to see someone sticking his hand in the fire, and then doesn’t do it.
A less intelligent person still has to stick his own hand in the fire, and then doesn’t do it again.
A very unintelligent person sticks it in, it hurts, and then does it again.
Now we have a culture and government that promotes sticking the hand in the fire, has burn salve and ointment for free, and fake ads saying “I stick my hand in the fire all the time and it’s great!” And it’s taught in schools, too.
And now, “If you don’t stick your hand in the fire you’re weird and a member of the Taliban!”
Excellent analogy!