Yes, there are bad actors and yes the scandal may implicate other players. We do want to know what happened but we're burnt out on this story. [ ... ] You dwell on the negative always.
Whatever happened at MtGOX, it is certain that some 500,000 BTC now belong to a thief or scammer. Added to other scams and thefts, known and unknown, it may be that more than 1 million BTC now belong to bitcoin criminals. If those people go unpunished and get to keep their bitcoins, such crimes will not stop with MtGOX.
So, if bitcoin succeeds like his most ardent fans believe, perhaps 10% of all the money supply in the world will belong to criminals. You want me to root for that?

The more you attempt to defend this line of logic, the more ridiculous it begins to seem.
I am fairly certain that each dollar that has been in existence for more than a couple of years, has passed through the hands of at least 10 criminals. NOW certainly, the newly printed dollars may NOT yet had opportunities to pass through the hands of more than one or two criminals b/c those dollars are going straight to the banking criminals who are hoarding those dollars.. .or perhaps investing them in some off shore location.. such as china or germany, where they can get greater return than they perceive to be able to get if they were to invest those dollars in the US of A...