The Law and Your Thoughts

The law literally doesn't care what you're thinking. You can't be punished for your thoughts

alone—that’s a core legal principle. Law is focused on your external actions, what you actually

do, not what’s going on in your head. Its main job is to create social

order, not to make you a morally perfect person. While rules of politeness

or religion might care about your inner self, the law only gets involved with your

mindset—like whether you had intent—*after* you’ve already done something. It's about what

you do, not what you think about doing.