Some people live in abject fear of their fellow citizens and desire the protection of the state in place of personal responsibility and judgment, or simply desire power over others, and achieve it by excusing criminal behavior on one hand while criminalizing honest behavior on the other.
Liberals routinely set free or defend the guilty because it gives them a sense of power. It also creates a criminal environment that serves as a pretext for the expansion of state power they crave. On the other hand, honest people cannot be so easily ruled, so laws are multiplied to make them into criminals for the greater benefit of the ruling class of liberal elitists.
Finally, there are those (found most commonly in Academia, but elsewhere, too) who have made it their project to destroy our culture and our way of life in order to impose their own vision of Utopia. What better way to achieve that end than by supporting policies that subvert the rule of law, while imposing laws that are ill-defined, ineffective, and unenforceable?
While true, an achademic should be able to look to history for evidence of what happens when utopia is pursued. Which tells me they have an agenda beyond achademia.
Still contemplating the rest of your analysis. Thanks.
Cordially,