This is exactly why you have been one of my Heroes here since the first day I learned anything about you at all, Tim.
No one can ever say that you are not always willing to stand up for principles and justice even if the justice serves someone or a group of someones who may not deserve it at all in the "eyes of society" -- but who still have rights that need defending.
Folks this is a man who has always been fastidious about freedom, personal property rights, justice for all and not for "just us" and of course, fastidious about having a very clean car interior. (learned during what is still the most legendary blockchain interview ever, and probably still on youtube somewhere recorded for posterity for over half a decade now)
One would think "they" could be rational enough to realize you would be just as stalwart at protecting THEIR assets if the tables were turned and theirs had been at risk in similar fashion but sometimes you really have to wonder about some of what seems to be considered rational around here.
Anyway, you know what Sir? As I understand it, dumb people think smart people are crazy people, and nice guys finish last. So the cliché's indicate the cards are stacked against the best of us sometimes.
What's heroic, is when you know the deck was marked against you, and you played all in anyway.