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If I do something I don't know is a crime, should I not be punished?

I mean this isn't real life, it's a sim league - but at the same time, I personally would not punish you for it in real life, if you can objectively prove you didn't know. The major crimes, those which are universal, everyone knows are illegal. There are 0 people in the world who don't know murder is a crime, for example (except babies, and who is a baby going to murder?). I know realistically you would be punished (and I'm not about to lead a crusade against laws around the world), but I personally would not, because if you don't know it's a crime then it's almost certainly a minor thing. Either that or some backwards ass country has banned something that's not really an issue.

A case where someone doesn't know something is a crime - I can see that coming up in things like cultural differences. Someone does a thing while on vacation that is fine in their country, but isn't in the new country. Anything that is illegal in one place and legal in another can't honestly be a big issue - I'm not trying to arrest someone for going to Canada, buying a Kinder Surprise with candy in it, and then bringing it back into the states, for example. Or things like gay rights in Russia, or women's rights in certain middle eastern countries - no, I don't think these groups should be punished just because they travel to some backwards ass place. However, my answer to this is starting to border on a political discussion, so let's not.