Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.