Evaluating the benefits of legislation should take into account the cognitive burden it places on everyone in the country, could have been your point. (This si

Evaluating the benefits of legislation should take into account the cognitive burden it places on everyone in the country, could have been your point. (This since I notice you are taking the tack that the problem was the unlawfulness of what you were doing: if you believe that your behavior was actually intrinsically immoral, you don't mention it.)