My neighbor's portable generator was stolen from outside his garage last year. Would you argue that if the thief took it to carry off to New Orleans during the flood, then my neighbor should hail and celebrate and indemnify the thief?
Only if the generator was already at the scene of the disaster, and if the use of said generator would be of immediate use to actually save lives, and the neighbor to whom it belongs to were unavailable, and the generator was accessable.
But I take it that the generator in question was not in NO, nor was it used to save lives???