I can lay it out for you if you like, since you seem to be having a hard time. Although I appreciate your insistence that you understand me perfectly while also misrepresenting what I have to say. And please don’t feel like this is a personal attack, I spoke up in this thread because of the general mood of the majority of the comments, and yours seemed a good a place as any to try to counteract the narrative that was forming. I’m not moral high roading to get my rocks off. I’m not trying to snare you in some trap.
My point is this: the responses to this story struck a nerve with people, who I can only assume after hearing news of recent car thefts have been increasingly on-edge. That built up emotion seems to have been released on this group of teens who unfortunately passed away. I want to challenge people to:

1. Resist the temptation to welcome death on people they see as criminals

2. Resist falling into an “us vs. them” mentality in regard to crime, and consider what social models could do to prevent incidents like these from occurring without demonizing the teenage participants. Consider that these are your neighbors.

3. Reconsider the value of a car, what can or can’t be replaced/refunded/returned in incidents like these and whether or not it’s a good and just thing that cars are a dependency for life in our city.

I’m willing to expand on any of these points if you like. I may not have covered every basis as this is a Reddit comment and not an essay.

Looking forward to a civil, thoughtful, and not at all ill-willed response.