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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9296274" data-attributes="member: 177">I think the concept is part of the major moral frameworks followed by billions around the world.  Alas most of those frameworks are ensconced in religions, and so are not really open to discussion here.I might direct you to the punishments levied by criminal justice systems for property crime vs violent crime, as an indication of the underlying morals of various cultures around the world, but that takes us into politics, and so would also be inappropriate.Thankfully, in the end, I'm comfortable with you not being sure.  In Les Misérables, (the novel, published in 1862), Javert commits suicide when he realizes that his moral judgements based on property crime run contrary to the actual morals seen in Valjean, and by extension many of the criminals Javert has punished in his life.See below...I believe you'll find that generally real-world justice systems handle actions that threaten lives separately from any attendant property crime.  We have various forms and levels of "Endangerment" as a separate crime, for example.</blockquote>