The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”
“I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.”