[Darknemo2000]

You know, an act is still an act. Intentional or not intentional, those are just the circumstances.

And yes senile old men go to prison as well for theft, even if there explain the forgot to pay due to their old age. As long as the judge is not convinced about it. Though old age is taken into a softening circumstances but these are physical ones and are not always softening the decision.

Lets imagine a person who comes from some distant communistic village (by communism I mean the real K.Mark's communism, not russian, fucked up version of it) where the private property is non-existent, and he steals another person spends up the money and has fun, and once taken to trial he explains that he was not aware that he is doing something bad, and he is genuinely sorry. Yet despite that, these are softening circumstances that may decrease the level of his punishment but not punishment itself.

According to you if a person is unaware of his actions being bad, he should not be punished. A nice idea that romantics tried to protect back in the 19th century, but totally u-topical and with such 'justice' I don't think we would survive for very long.

The only way he is not responsible for his actions is when he is mentally deemed to be so, meaning he cannot really function as a normal person in our society. If however, he is mentally healthy, then him not being aware of his deed being bad, doesn't mean much and can only soften a little the punsihment that is still to come.

You may be surprised but thats how it works. As long as you are responsible for your actions, you still have to take the responsibility for your actions. The whole intentional or nonintentional are just softening circumstances but the deed itself still carries the same amount of responsibility, so you can stop with boldening that word since it doesn't change anything about the act itself as you still carry the same amount of responsibility for it.