[geocar]

> Something is a crime if society determines that it should be so. Nothing more.

According to The New Oxford Companion to Law, the term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition.

Society also determined it was ok to use a firehose on black people, so I think the best we can say is that the term Crime has nothing to do with Morality, and people who conflate the two need to be looked at with suspicion.

> You should engage with the arguments the other side makes.

I don't. I think most arguments about crime require one-side to act in bad-faith. After all: The author doesn't actually mean that Encryption isn't illegal in some jurisdictions, they mean that it shouldn't be. You know this. I know this. And yet you really think someone needs your tautological definition of crime? I don't believe you.