It’s called game theory. The perpetrators instantly adapt to the new rules to reap the advantages and avoid the penalties.
Liberals always assume that what they see will remain invariant and their change will affect what they see in the way they reason it will. They are always wrong because the picture they are seeing is dynamic, not static.
It the Liberals who in the 70’s wanted us to unilaterally disarm, get rid of all our nuke deterrent. They actually believed if we did so the Russians would see we were serious about peace and would themselves dis arm.
This thinking is much the same as that of todays Liberals and their blind faith in the truly awful negotiated agreement with Iran.
You’re absolutely right and that is why trying to reason with a liberal is pointless. If you want to talk about whether social security was a good idea for instance, you are thinking of what might have happened if we had never had the idea brought up. A liberal is thinking what would happen if we suddenly stopped all social security payments now. They don’t see this as two separate questions, they think one is the same as the other.
Liberals always deny human nature in policy doctrine. They’ve gotten a lot of innocent people killed that way.
Ha...even easier...
It's Adam Smiths invisible hand nudging the perps around to maximize their gains.