I'd even be ok with making Lying a serious crime, when its deception that could be damaging to someone. Frankly we wouldn't go wrong moving closer to a Ten Commandments based society.
You can learn a lot about people who you thought were decent upstanding citizens when you propose this kind of thing and watch which ones react aggressively to the idea.
I'd rather we just returned to religion so those standards become effectively self-imposed because I certainly don't trust the government to handle arbitrating what constitutes telling a lie.
I'd even be ok with making Lying a serious crime, when its deception that could be damaging to someone. Frankly we wouldn't go wrong moving closer to a Ten Commandments based society.
You can learn a lot about people who you thought were decent upstanding citizens when you propose this kind of thing and watch which ones react aggressively to the idea.
I'd rather we just returned to religion so those standards become effectively self-imposed because I certainly don't trust the government to handle arbitrating what constitutes telling a lie.