Even unknown passerbys will get a glint of beauty when passing by. And let's not forget the few extra bucks you're likely to get if and when you choose to sell your more beautified abode. On the other hand, your pride, joy, and monetary remuneration must be compared to the price of the creeping juniper. That's the question any prospective creeping juniper planter must answer. Weighing the cost on one hand with the benefits on the other is pretty darn fundamental to economics, the economy, market exchanges, our good old scarcity problem, and well, when you get right down to it, life itself.
Crime is no different.
The deed is done if the deed doer thinks that the benefit exceeds the cost. Even in a fit a rage, the rager likely thinks that the benefit exceeds the cost. Adding the Pluses and the Minuses Let's ponder the benefit and cost of crime. The benefit is the easy part. For such acts as robbery you get possession of valuable stuff that can be used or sold for cold hard cash.