Reply #31: Let me ask you this. Should it be a crime to talk someone into commit a lesser crime? [View All]

[Wizard777]

You have a guy with a gun saying, I'm gonna shoot him in the head. That will result in a murder. Should it be a crime to tell the guy with the gun, why don't you just shoot him in the foot instead? That take it down from Murder to a malicious wounding or assault with a deadly weapon. They has already made up his mind to shoot the guy and that is not debatable to him. But where he shoots the guy may be debatable. Once you have talked the guy down to shooting the other guy in the foot. Maybe you can renew debates and go for him not shooting the guy at all.

This is basically what the Acorn employees did. They talked the couple down from the greater crime of evading taxes to a lesser crime of tax fraud. The couple would be paying taxes instead of evading them and there is still mean of prosecution. Maybe once they talked them down to the lesser crime. Maybe they could have talked them out committing any crime at all? We don't know whats on the rest of the video.