How about your bad manners in ignoring the obvious?
Sometimes even Jesus had to have bad manners to get a point across. He didn’t always channel Dale Carnegie to the hard headed.
Google “pre-crime”.
It began as a subject of science fiction satire, and ended up as serious study matter.
Jesus would say, of course, judge only as you ought to be judged yourself, not according to appearances.
Every time a pre-crime is prosecuted, grace is hurt. One assumes no crime until a crime is documented to a sufficiently good degree of certitude. The woman caught in alleged adultery benefited from this, incidentally.
It’s so easy to hate small evil a to measures so extreme that you completely open the door to large evil B.
At root... I don’t think governments should be getting into some matters that are more suited for churches and synagogues. Let our states care about molestations and other gross wrongs. Let them even be suspicious about masquerades but never actually ban masquerades of themselves. Let smaller sins be something that highlights the need to be born again.
Consider that the Old Testament called for stoning of both Sabbath breakers and murderers — but in either case one had to have two witnesses. The scapegoat system was used for bloodshed cases with less testimony.
The point to retaliation was that it was saved for demonstrably notorious cases. Two witnesses. There are elements in this that our modern left would not like, and elements in this that our modern right would not like. But that’s because we have all been trying to make God over in our own image and then excusing the idol. He has His own distinctive ways.