Thanks for missing the point.

There was no role playing involved -- someone simply vultured a corpse and took things that couldn't be replaced anytime soon. I'm perfectly okay with losing things in a role-playing context -- a fight that was lost, cabal politics, etc. In those cases you know why and how to work out retribution.

This was just someone being a jerk. You can try to excuse the behavior however you choose to but the result is one less person interested in playing a game with seriously diminished numbers.

And maybe it is just me, but I don't loot corpses I wasn't involved with killing no matter what's in them. Even when I do kill someone, I seldom take more than 1 or 2 things because I don't want to ruin the game for them. The idea is to keep people around so you have someone to interact with.