Would you feel the same about manslaughter? If someone drove carelessly and killed your child, would you want them to get away unpunished because they didn't intend to break the law?
Knowing that driving carelessly is against the law is a pre-requisite for getting a drivers license. It also doesn't require a law degree to understand that driving carelessly is against the law. There is a big difference between that and a situation where you think of some clever accounting trick, take the initiative to check with a lawyer, have the layer tell you that it's fine, and then you end up going to jail anyway.
Given how lightly white collar crime is prosecuted in this country, this makes me assume not that the law is draconian and unjust, but rather that there is more to the story than we're getting here.
