But the bad guys would thrive. Forget it; they always would. “And, in a sense,” Towne said, “that was the point. There are some crimes for which you get punished, and there are some crimes that our society isn’t equipped to punish, and so we reward the criminals. In this case, greedy men displaced a whole community and took the land. So there’s really nothing to do but put their names on plaques and make them pillars of the community.”
