Yah. (sigh) I hate people, too . . . seems lately they're just lying in wait to attack, the way wolves supposedly do (hey, but a wolf isn't conniving and it's just defending the pack or is hungry, not a thief.) I'm really losing faith in human nature. I had my CDs and cell phone/handsfree stolen from in front of my house . . . then had my CDs and player and a 2-meter ham radio yanked out of my car one night as it was parked in the driveway. Don't these people know--that stuff doesn't belong to them!! They don't have a use for it!! They are bad! Something bad is going to happen to them by the rules of karma and "boomerang--it bit you in the butt" laws, I promise you. Yet that's not the problem here--you were violated and it's not fair. It's just not fair. >)sigh(< I'm not helping much, am I? Scheisse. Anyhow . . .know that you're not alone. Positive thoughts going to you. And to the other person who says people stink. Mean people stink!!!! Thieves . . . they're going to get theirs, someday soon. That's just how the universe works. Believe me, it does. Really. Not that it makes this any easier!! =hugs=
There's a lack of empathy in theft -- at least burglary -- that I just don't grok. When I try to put myself in a thief's shoes, I can't quite manage to imagine taking stuff without simultaneously imagining feeling horrible for the effect on the owner of the stuff. So I don't understand burglars on an emotional level. (On a straight logical "risk:benefit" and opportunity level, yeah, but not on a human one.)
And your "they don't have a use for it" comment got me thinking about how value is destroyed ... obviously the things have some value to the thief, though most likely only in terms of potential fence price, but nowhere near as much value as any of the things had to me. Even for items I could simply go out and replace if I had the money, the fence isn't going to pay as much as the item is worth in the legitamate market, and even the fence is going to get a below-market price when he sells it in turn, right? And for items with sentimental or personal-history attachments, the loss of value is even greater.
In contrast, most honest endeavors involve creating value.
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Anyhow . . .know that you're not alone. Positive thoughts going to you. And to the other person who says people stink. Mean people stink!!!! Thieves . . . they're going to get theirs, someday soon. That's just how the universe works.
Believe me, it does. Really.
Not that it makes this any easier!!
=hugs=
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And your "they don't have a use for it" comment got me thinking about how value is destroyed ... obviously the things have some value to the thief, though most likely only in terms of potential fence price, but nowhere near as much value as any of the things had to me. Even for items I could simply go out and replace if I had the money, the fence isn't going to pay as much as the item is worth in the legitamate market, and even the fence is going to get a below-market price when he sells it in turn, right? And for items with sentimental or personal-history attachments, the loss of value is even greater.
In contrast, most honest endeavors involve creating value.