وَيَسْتَوِي فِي ذَلِكَ الْعَامِدُ وَالنَّاسِي، وَالْمُبْتَدِئُ وَالْعَائِدُ.
Translation: The deliberate actor and the forgetful actor are alike in this liability, as are the first-time and repeat offenders.
The comparison concerns compensatory liability: forgetfulness does not cancel the stated compensation when protected game is destroyed.
It does not claim that moral culpability is identical in deliberate and forgetful cases. Sin and compensation answer distinct questions.