The Fallibility of Human Nature

Consider what would happen if the fallible athenian voters made a mistake and enacted a law that was very unwise and unjust. If they were somehow firmly persuaded that thievery is a high virtue from which many practical benefits flow, suppose they abolished all laws forbidding it. What would happen? Everyone would start thieving. Very soon. But most people would no longer be re in their property, even most thieves. And the farmers and artisans and traders would soon find it impossible to continue to produce anything worth stealing. So disaster and starvation would follow, while the promised benefits would not. And they would all realize they had been mistaken. Would they? Let me remind you again