#seems appropriate

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”

So like, at this point it's fair to say that Erik Johnson could set the Colorado capital on fire in his underwear while reciting Satanic incantations and the good people of Denver would simply shrug and say well, yea, it's EJ, you know, he's allowed to do that.