Socrates Actions Revealed In Oedipus The King

This scene is set inside a mall after a shoplifter is escorted out for stealing clothes. Socrates sparks up a debate with a mall cop named Gregory. The dialog is on the matter of law and punishable actions.
Socrates: What makes a deed or action worth punishment by the law? By what level of severity must the action be for the law to feel the need to step in and control the person whom is committing the deed?
Gregory: That’s simple; that man stole a couple of clothes from the store, so he is being sent to court. The judges will decide whether or not he is sent to jail. I’d say he will most likely be punished for his actions.
S: I see. If a person is in jail, that means they have committed thievery.
G: No. Others are sent to jail for other things too. Any
action that negatively affects a person is worth federal punishment.
S: I believe I understand now. Do you see that man over there?
G: Yes.
S: I watched him sneezed into his hand and continue to touch a door handle. His actions could negatively affect a person, right?
G: Yes, if it caused someone to get sick.
S: Then he should be sent to court to determine his punishment for negatively effecting the people who touched the door handle after him.
G: No. He didn’t intentionally mean to get the others sick.
S: So an action that negatively effects someone must be intentional in order to be punishable by the law?
G: Yes.
S: Okay, I am sure I understand now. Picture this if you will: Say a man has a fair share of alcoholic drinks. He has no way to get home from his friend’s house so he takes his own car that which he arrived in. On the way home, he is unable to stay in his lane and hits another car. The occupants of the other car are killed. Is this clear so far?
G: Yes, I understand.
S: Do you think the fault falls on the man?
G: Of course. His actions caused the lives of others.
S: Would you then agree that the man had no intention of killing the occupants of the car?
G: Yes, I don’t imagine he did it on purpose.
S: Then what do you say would happen to the man? Should he not be prosecuted because his intentions where not aligned with his
actions?
G: No, he should be prosecuted. He committed manslaughter and should be sentenced for his actions.
S: But you just said that his actions were not purposeful, and by your definition he should not be punished for his actions.
G: I suppose I am wrong. I mean to say that if the crime severely negatively affects another person, whether it is intentional or not, it worth punishment by the law.
S: It’s worth punishment by the law if you severely negatively affect someone?
G: Yes, you have it right.
S: I wouldn’t be negatively affecting someone if I walked right into this mall after it closed, right?
G: No, as long as you didn’t steal or break anything.
S: Then it wouldn’t be a crime. I wouldn’t be punished for it because it isn’t intentionally harming someone.
G: That isn’t true. They could charge you for trespassing and you could be fined or sent to jail.
S: Then what say you, could define what action is worth punishing a man?
G: I suppose I don’t really know. The government is the one whom decides who goes to jail for what.