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My old school artist brother-in-law said to me something like this; “sometimes I think stealing is worse the assault, maybe those guys who cut off arms for it have something there.” I was maybe 17 or 18 at the time and it shocked me as he was a gentle sign painter by then with six kids and treated my sister like a queen. There is more to the story I suppose, as I had been a thief briefly in the period leading up to this comment and had been on probation for six months – he probably knew about it.
I loaned someone money and they paid back about 30% of it. Later they said they figured I owed them for reasons I’ll not clarify now. The more I thought about it the more I saw their point of view and frankly the money wasn’t something that caused me any hardship.
I used to leave $20 in the top drawer of my dresser when my boy was a young teen so I would know which of his friends were thieves. I never said anything to them or him, it was just a relatively inexpensive way to identify them so I could get to know them better and tease out their motivations without telling them why I was asking certain questions.