True criminals commit malum in se crimes, things like murder, rape and robbery that are evil in and of themselves.
Nowadays a large portion of crimes are malum prohibitum crimes, things that are illegal not because they are immoral, but because there is a law against them.
If everybody quit paying income taxes and demanded a jury trial, the federal government would go belly-up in a year.
I understand malum prohibitum. How does that latin lesson change anything?
People whow quit paying income taxes don’t usually get prosecuted. They just get their paycheck and bank accounts seized by the IRS.
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