According to an influential view, using the criminal law against innocent actions or agents is wrong. In this paper, I consider four related arguments against this view: a debunking argument that suggests that the intuitive appeal of this view may be due to a conflation of different ideas; a counterexamples argument that points out that there are many cases in which using the criminal law against innocent actions or agents is justified; a theoretical argument, according to which the force of the reasons for and against using the criminal law is a matter of degree and it is therefore implausible to hold that the latter always defeat the former; and an analogy argument, which holds that it is implausible to maintain that harming innocents is often justified in other contexts but (almost) never in the context of the criminal law.

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道德无罪和刑法：非恶意行为和无罪代理人

根据一个有影响的观点，对无辜的行为或代理人使用刑法是错误的。在本文中，我考虑了四个相关的反对这一观点的论点：一个揭穿的论点表明这种观点的直观吸引力可能是由于不同观点的融合；一个反例论证，指出在许多情况下，对无辜行为或代理人使用刑法是合理的；一种理论论证，根据该论证，支持和反对使用刑法的理由的力量是程度问题，因此认为后者总是击败前者是不可信的；以及一个类比论点，它认为认为伤害无辜者在其他情况下通常是合理的，但（几乎）从不在刑法的情况下是不合理的。