Sometimes it seems like people on here feel like they will open the floodgates and unleash a tide of bike thefts upon the world if they agree to even acknowledge a shade of grey where this is concerned. This isn't arithmetic where there is only one right answer and an endless supply of wrong answers.

I've looked at bikes that have been sitting the streets for a couple of months and contemplated giving it, or some components off of it, a better home. I'm pretty sure most of the people that have been so quick to judge on this topic have too. I don't feel bad about thinking such thoughts. Do you? If you don't, then why should you feel bad about acting upon them?

Some people have had good reasons for doing what they did to get convicted and incarcerated. I'm sure you weren't implying this with your statement, but do you really believe that everyone matriculated into the American penal system absolutely belongs there?