If the law says so, then yes. You know, there is this body of other allegedly functional, productive adults, called a legislature (of some sort), and they write these rules for society that are called laws (or ordinances or statutes), and they decided to make such activity a crime worthy of such punishment. But you could change that if you convince enough people.
Or you can whine and post snarky queries on Yahoo, and see how far THAT takes you.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.