In earlier days, in this country, very much for that sort of reason, stealing a horse was a capital offense.
If you stole a man's horse, you were stealing his ability to make a living, to survive. Very possibly condemning him to death.
We would be a much safer, healthier society, if we treated modern criminals who steal things that are crucial to anyone else's ability to thrive in a similar manner.
Even if you don't steal something that a man needs to make his living, you're certainly stealing the part of his life that he spent working to earn the wealth to buy that thing.
ICE snatches denmark born father at his naturalisation hearing he commited no crimes
