Property represents time spent working to earn the money to pay for it. Time is a limited non renewable resource for all of us. Therefore, destruction of property can be considered theft of the amount of time a person had to work in order to afford said property.
I had thousands of dollars of stuff stolen from me during my 20 years in the Navy. Clothing, mostly, but other things. I HATE thieves with a burning passion. I don't give a flying fuck what justification he tells himself, the stuff isn't his, and he has no right to destroy it.
Destroying something a man worked 20 years to build up is little different than retroactively putting him in prison for 20 years. You might not even serve 20 years for murder, if he does the crime I say let him have it as time already served.
Property represents time spent working to earn the money to pay for it. Time is a limited non renewable resource for all of us. Therefore, destruction of property can be considered theft of the amount of time a person had to work in order to afford said property.
I had thousands of dollars of stuff stolen from me during my 20 years in the Navy. Clothing, mostly, but other things. I HATE thieves with a burning passion. I don't give a flying fuck what justification he tells himself, the stuff isn't his, and he has no right to destroy it.
Destroying something a man worked 20 years to build up is little different than retroactively putting him in prison for 20 years. You might not even serve 20 years for murder, if he does the crime I say let him have it as time already served.