[xotesos]

To me it is an absurd comparison.

Someone stealing a billion dollars is committing a far worse crime than someone that murders me.

The problem I have with this is imagine what a statistical poll would be if you posed the question "would you spend 20 years in jail for 1 billion?"

There is a good percentage that absolutely would sign up for that, obviously a much different result than "would you spend life in prison to get a billion dollars".

[kelnos]

I think a more interesting question would be around risk of getting caught. Like, would you do it if you had a 10% chance of getting caught and going to jail? 20%? 30%? 50%?