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It does matter what you do. Criminal law recognizes two elements to a crime:

mens rea ("guilty mind") and actus reus ("guilty act")

http://law.jrank.org/pages/22506/Criminal-Law-Elements-Crime...

If there's no actus reus in your example, then there's no crime.



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