Excellent post, well thought out and clearly stated. You get it, FRiend. :^)
Anytime we wonder, should we or shouldn’t we? we need look no farther than the original Ten Commandments. After all is said & done, that’s where the legal code, upon which Western Civilization was built, comes from.
So we should criminalize all forms of lying? Making of graven images? All failures to honor father and mother?