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It is not in the criminals best interest to commit more crime. One criminal is probably only responsible for .0001% of the crime rate in any given city. So the incentive to commit more crime to revoke the law is infinitesimal. The disincentive created by the increased risk of incarceration would completely overwhelm the incentive to create more crime.

This isn't true when the effects are measured in an industry with only several major actors. For example you decide to test out net neutrality to see what effects it has on broadband cost. So you create a bill that says "Net Neutrality unless broadband costs go up". Then Comcast could just increase their prices to deactivate the bill. But situations like these would be easy to stop and the exception.




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