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I'm almost at your point; though I still feel sad for a thief getting himself killed, I don't feel angry at the driver or anything. If you were to upgrade the thief to "armed robber" I wouldn't be sad to say goodbye to them.
But if you were to downgrade the thief's antisocial behavior, instead? IIRC there was some point in my childhood where I noticed the classic Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist trope starting to fail for me. In theory the protagonist is supposed to be just enough of a jackass that you can appreciate how hilarious it is when he gets his comeuppance, and I can still enjoy that for Eric Cartman (or Montgomery Burns, now that I think about it) levels of horrible, but watching the suffering of a mere Jack Tripper or Michael Scott is painful.
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