Now I'm a radical?

I was called a radical the other day, because I believe that people should be held responsible for their actions that may or may not be legal.

Ethically, I believe people should be held accountable for what may or may not constitute a crime.

There are many things that are "legal," but not necessarily ethical. Why then is it a radical idea that laws deemed by a body of persons to constitute guidelines for ethics, aren't necessarily all encompassing?

Socrates said: Let he who would move the world first move himself.

Can you say that you are off to change the world if you first haven't changed yourself into what you want the world to be like?