To steal or not to steal, that is the question. As a counselor for both in-class and online theft classes I often discuss the true nature of why people steal. Whether you shoplift a bag of potato chips or priceless artwork, your motivation is the key to understanding theft.

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of stealing Chinese artifacts worth more than $32 million from two British museums according to the LA Times.

Police in London arrested two men suspected of the theft of 18 mostly jade antiques worth $29 million from Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

The team of thieves, two men and two women, chiseled a three-foot hole in the wall of the Durham museum and stole a bowl and figurine worth almost $3.2 million.

There is nothing like publicizing the theft. The arrests were made after authorities made a public appeal on "Crimewatch," a BBC program dedicated to unsolved crimes.

Police recovered the Durham artifacts, both from the Qing Dynasty, in mid-April and museum officials said they planned to put the pieces back on display.

The pieces stolen and recovered include a bowl that dates back to the 18th century with a poem inscribed inside and a 12-inch figurine of seven fairies in a boat

The Fitzwilliam artifacts have not been recovered. Staff at the Cambridge museum recently put out a plea asking for any information about the carved jade figures from the Ming and Qing dynasties, some more than 500 years old.

Doesn’t theft just make you sick to your stomach? Now these beautiful pieces of artwork will not be appreciated by the public whose lives could be enriched from seeing these ancient treasures. I hope the thieves are forced to take a number of stop theft classes and seek counseling for their problem.