Legally guilty people aren't always morally guilty.

The law is idealistic. It's desgined to encourage perfect behavior, and legislators know that. When they create laws, they imagine, "What SHOULD people do in this situation?" That doesn't take into account when you or I or they would personally do. If a person hurts another person in a way that isn't legally recognized, and the victim of that moral crime retaliates, they may do something that's legally recognized as harm. And so the law will pursue and prosecute that person. That's not an even distribution of punishment.

But for the rest of that person's life, they'll be recognized as a criminal. They'll be set apart from you and me for a reason that's no different than you and me.

That's why idgaf what the law says. If a person has a conviction, I hardly care. I look at them with my own eyes. Not the eyes of the law.

And plenty of legally "innocent" people are guilty of worse things.