The law provides rules for the good to punish the bad. Mindfulness increases the

The law provides rules for the good to punish the bad. Mindfulness increases the number of good in relation to the bad. Prosperity decreases the incentives of the bad. So norms, laws, and traditions provide incentives such that the good are more numerous than the bad.

Even some religions try but they one serve to move the crime from simple to more complex. Even some societies try more laws, and more education, but they only serve to move the crime from simple to more complex.

But genetics are what they are. There is no substitute for hanging every possible criminal at every possible opportunity for a five hundred years, and thereby genetically pacifying a people.

The law is simply the filter that provides the good people with rules for deciding who to hang. 😉