In real life, you have prevention and recourse. I can buy insurance on the contents of my home and car, and I can put serial numbers on my stuff to substantiall

In real life, you have prevention and recourse. I can buy insurance on the contents of my home and car, and I can put serial numbers on my stuff to substantially increase the chance of the police getting it back to me. It's also a very unlikely thing in real life. In a game with penalties, it happens often (because there are no real life risks for doing it), and your only recourse is getting stronger and doing the same thing to the person who did it to you. I play games for fun, not to bring the negatives of life along for the ride. If you see the negatives as positives, you wouldn't understand why someone would think like I do. Revenge-based gameplay seems extremely boring (and frustrating) to me. I think the success of games like WoW over games with significant death penalties shows which viewpoint is more common.