There are 100s of years of common law and law making trying to sort these kind of questions out. This is what appellate courts and legislatures are for. Written

There are 100s of years of common law and law making trying to sort these kind of questions out. This is what appellate courts and legislatures are for. Written laws, no matter how detailed or precise, will have gaps that the common law fills in. Later, in some cases, legislatures update the law to conform with common law or to repeal/override common law. There is a lot case law looking at which crimes are considered serious. In some cases, crimes explicitly considered non-serious in one jurisdiction may be considered serious in other jurisdictions.