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>>14857
Letting Perfect Be The Enemy Of Good: The Movie.

He addresses this in the video, but it's very weird to call Trump Barabas, because the implication is that Harris is somehow the Jesus figure.  And I don't know that she's particularly more Christlike than even Trump, who's notably quite distant.

But the real message here is summed up by "Laws will never change a person's heart."  Which is just true.  And that's a practical conundrum, not just a spiritual one.  Because oftentimes laws do not stop things from occurring.

Heck, really obvious example, gun control.  The biggest opposition argument against gun control is "People won't listen to it and now the victims won't have guns."  And that's true, I do believe that.  But having been given that axiom, to say "We will make abortions illegal and now there won't be any more abortions." seems ludicrous.  Of course there are going to be more abortions, you didn't convince anyone to not have them, you made it slightly more difficult.  Now they'll have to pay more, travel more, or potentially even escalate to being put to death, none of which solves the abortion problem.

>>14859
They're not really equivalent. A gun is a tool, and criminals exist regardless of them. Ultimately the ones you want to prevent from using guns are those who are already committing crime, not the law-abiding. (Well, at least ideally, but let's not get in to 'true motivations' today...) And on top of that, the fact of the matter is, a criminal can still kill you in a myriad of other ways with a range of other tools.

Abortions are more comparable to drugs, if anything. Though lacking the addictive quality is liable to remove the 'drive' to continue using them, of course.
Banning drugs does lower their use; We can see that to an extent with the areas that have allowed for weed, for instance. It's just that banning something doesn't mean it goes entirely away.