In most countries, including the USA, it is prohibitively difficult to completely avoid committing crimes. For example, you commit a crime whenever you:
Drive over the speed limit
Sing “Happy Birthday” to someone
Watch a movie at home with friends (depending on the media)
Make off-color jokes in public
Drink alcohol (depending on location)
Post certain kinds of jokes on Twitter
Create software of almost any kind
Most of the laws that define such actions as crimes are rarely enforced here in the USA—until you happen to draw an attention of some moderately powerful person or entity, at which point the enforcement kicks in. However, it would be difficult (though not, I suppose, impossible) to lead a normal life without committing any such minor crimes.
Technical note: some of these are Torts, not Crimes. (Singing Happy Birthday, Watching a Movie, or making an Off-Color Joke are not crimes, barring special circumstances, but they may well be Torts.)
In most countries, including the USA, it is prohibitively difficult to completely avoid committing crimes. For example, you commit a crime whenever you:
Drive over the speed limit
Sing “Happy Birthday” to someone
Watch a movie at home with friends (depending on the media)
Make off-color jokes in public
Drink alcohol (depending on location)
Post certain kinds of jokes on Twitter
Create software of almost any kind
Most of the laws that define such actions as crimes are rarely enforced here in the USA—until you happen to draw an attention of some moderately powerful person or entity, at which point the enforcement kicks in. However, it would be difficult (though not, I suppose, impossible) to lead a normal life without committing any such minor crimes.
Technical note: some of these are Torts, not Crimes. (Singing Happy Birthday, Watching a Movie, or making an Off-Color Joke are not crimes, barring special circumstances, but they may well be Torts.)