I am Andrew Hyer, currently living in New Jersey and working in New York (in the finance industry).
The phrase "Robbers don't need to rob people" is generally accurate.
But saying "Robbers don't need to rob people," and writing a long argument in support of that, makes it seem like you might be confused about the thought processes of robbers.
If there's less abuse happening in homeschooling than in regular schooling, a policy of "let's impose burdens on homeschooling to crack down on abuse in homeschooling" without a similar crackdown on abuse in non-home-schooling does not decrease abuse.
You can see something similar with self-driving cars. It is bad if a self-driving car crashes. It would be good to do things that reduce that. But if you get to a point where self-driving cars are safer than regular driving, and you continue to crack down on self-driving cars but not on regular driving, this is not good for safety overall.
Huh. Could you try copy-pasting the spoiler block I have below and see how it comes out for you? It looks like somehow you've ended up with quote blocks instead of spoiler blocks. If this doesn't work, we can go harass LW tech people :P
I see this text as being inside a black spoiler block
And this text too.
If you copy-paste this, does it paste for you as a spoiler?