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> those people don't want papers authored, co-authored, or believed to be authored, by Geoff in their conference. That seems reasonable

No, it doesn't.

A scientific conference is not your backyard BBQ. The reasonable thing to do is to judge submissions on their scientific merit and relevance.

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A paper does not exist in a vacuum. If a field is filled with papers authored and co-authored by known sexual harassers, do you think many women will want to enter that field?

Letting shitty people gain prevalence in your field will have a negative effect on the future of your field, just like hiring shitty managers will have a detrimental effect on your company's turnover rate. It makes sense to want to limit the influence of shitty people.

Your proposed norm is ripe for abuse by brilliant jerks. Just keep producing meritorious work and all incidents of you abusing people in your personal life will be excused.

(Your proposed norm is how things used to be, and still are to a large extent. This is bad and a failure of society, not a success.)

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