Destroying someone’s property can ruin their life. Property is often required to make money. If your job has to close you aren’t getting paid. If someone burns your car and you can’t get to work you’re not getting paid. If you’re not getting paid you’re not getting rent/groceries. Many people don’t have much of a safety net to cover those losses.

If some egregious shit happens and people want to burn down a court house or police station I won’t bitch about it. Vandalizing places that had nothing to do with it is asshole behavior.