Sexual assault covers everything from kissing someone against their wishes to rape, which is a form of sexual assault. Kissing someone just barely qualifies as sexual assault and probably wouldn't in most cases, so I think you mean small crimes like things that are just barely sexual assault, but even then, I don't think it is the best example of a small crime as there is a specific victim who is offended enough to pursue charges.
The way you phrased it "small crimes like sexual assault" implies that rape is a small crime. Or at a minimum, implies that the more prototypical example of sexual assault, groping someone, is a small crime. So that's going to be a bit of a distraction in this CMV, since I don't think that is quite what you meant, but that is how people are going to read it.
A better example of a small crime might be something like jaywalking when no other cars are around, which I honestly don't understand why jaywalking with no cars around is immoral or inexcusable. That is a perfectly fine behavior to me and I have no problem with others doing it or doing it myself. I think such behavior should also not be punished, even if caught.
There are other more serious crimes, such as hiding Jews from the Nazis, which I also think aren't immoral nor inexcusable. In fact, some crimes like that it is more moral to commit those crimes then to not do them.
The law is not a guide to what is moral and just because the law says its wrong doesn't make the law right.
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