Broadening the definition of a crime isn't exactly unheard of. To choose a less emotional subject, mattress tags. The ethical reason for mattress tags is beca

Broadening the definition of a crime isn't exactly unheard of. To choose a less emotional subject, mattress tags. The ethical reason for mattress tags is because historically people would sell mattresses stuffed full of all sorts of unsavory garbage. What we actually criminalized, or at least were trying to prevent, was some sort of fraud or public endangerment. But we also along the way made it illegal for sellers to remove the tags from mattresses. Removing the tag isn't inherently harmful; if you don't deceive the purchaser on the contents of the mattress, it's not even fraud. But we broadened the definition of the crime to make it easier to enforce.