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Crimes do not always require intent. It depends on what the statute says specifically.

• solomatov 8y ago
  Yes, there're such crimes, but there aren't so many of them.
  • dragonwriter 8y ago
    There are lots of crimes that require a mental state less than intent (either recklessness or criminal negligence, mostly, though there are some strict liability crimes, and the weird case of “malice aforethought” for common law murder which is narrower than recklessness but just slightly broader than only intent.)
    • solomatov 8y ago
      Recklessness and negligence require some understanding of what you are doing and that it's wrong. So, it's really hard to commit them by mistake.
      • kazagistar 8y ago
        You know data often leaks and leads to identity theft and yet you slurp it down anyways and freely share it around. Sounds reckless and negligent to me.
      • dragonwriter 8y ago
        > Recklessness and negligence require some understanding of what you are doing and that it's wrong. Negligence specifically does not, it only requires the existence of a duty of care (except not in specialized cases, that of reasonable care, which doesn't mean you are aware of risk, but that a reasonable person in your place would be.) Recklessness requires conscious awareness and disregard of risk, but not awareness of wrongness. Harms from recklessness are mistakes, while recklessness itself is not, but negligence is quite normally a mistake.