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Originally Posted by kennyc
I don't care about legal terminalogy, most of it is artificial anyway, defined in a way that it it only applicable in the law.
What I care about is what people do an how it affects others. That's why taking something without permission is theft. Pure and simple. No one needs legal definitions or special definitions or terminology to look at the situation and see if for what it is -- theft.
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the finetuning definitions of legal terminology assure that ppl can be punished according to
the ammount of criminal energy put into an action they made and
not according to the outcome.
from your point of view, having killed 20 people in an cold-blooded shooting, and heving caused their dead by e.g. insufficient maintenance of a vehicle would deserve
the same penalty because of the outcome: 20 dead human beings. 
are you sure that you want a poenal system according to Hammurabi?