It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Law, without force, is impotent.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct; nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Either the law exists, or it does not.