Few weeks ago I accidentally sent 20btc worth of razorcoin to a riecoin address.. and everyone made fun of me when I requested the developer some how code something for the next update that would return my coins. I was emotional and was not thinking clearly or rationally and it was a stupid request to even consider asking. I know it sucks but sometimes you just gotta take the loss. At one point darkcoin got attacked pretty hard when a hacker stole a bunch of coins and used it to crash the price of darkcoin. In the real world if something goes wrong, you can't just jump in a time machine and make it right.
Isnt it quite peculiar that you invoke the "real world" here? If anything like what has happened here and at Mintpal could happen in the REAL WORLD, the actions and result would be identical... except for one thing: The perp would be sharing a jail cell with an extraordinarily hung 7 feet-250 pounds muscle man of intemperate disposition and a sexual incline towards nerdy hackers.
In that REAL WORLD your stupidity -of a few weeks back- would still be a total stupidity though.
You put too much thought into the inmate thing... kinda weird.