Apart from in the legal system, which is supposedly where we go to sort things like this out and discourage others from doing the same thing, intent has a massi

Apart from in the legal system, which is supposedly where we go to sort things like this out and discourage others from doing the same thing, intent has a massive impact ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea ) on the penalties you can levy to discourage said behaviour.