TR went to significant risk and effort to retrieve his boat and see that the thieves were jailed. It would have been much easier - expected, even - that he woul

TR went to significant risk and effort to retrieve his boat and see that the thieves were jailed. It would have been much easier - expected, even - that he would have just shot them dead. Of course not everyone is TR. He is a high moral standard to live up to, and he was also a lot stronger than most then and certainly most today.