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Originally Posted by mrkai
Tell me...if I say I'm going to punch you in the face, but don't...is such a thing equivalent to smashing in the front of your face with a brick?
Any idiot on the street can clearly see the difference between these two things, both conceptually and logically.
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If you plan to rob a bank, but you are caught before actually carrying out your crime, you will (at least in the UK) be charged with "conspiracy to commit armed robbery", which carries the same penalty as the act itself. The law makes no distinction between the "wrongness" of intending to do something, and actually doing it.
So yes, there is a legal difference between planning to punch me in the face, and actually doing it, but the legal penalties are the same in each case.