> We need to spend our time actually doing decent things, and being decent people.
Is this mutually exclusive to stopping people doing bad things and being bad people though?
Is this mutually exclusive to stopping people doing bad things and being bad people though?
There are a number of internet communities which essentially have this in the opposite form - as in "getting insulted is expected, no we are not going to do anything about it".
This was the de facto Linux mailing list way for a bit, and was somewhat documented in a lot of "how to interact and what to expect on LKML" guides.
If everyone is going to act in good faith the whole time, sure, it's fine. But as soon as you get one person acting in bad faith, it all falls apart - see the current Republican Party, for example.