Armed Blowfish wrote:
<snip> It really doesn't matter if it is intentional or not. Courtesy blankings, deletions and oversights are not sanctions against the users who made the comments.
However, there are certain societal values that encourage attacks. Placing freedom of information and Google's right to cache above the feelings of real people. Placing the public's right to know who people are above the privacy and safety of people who seriously could get hurt. Placing the need to punish those who do 'bad' things above actually resolving the situation, even if they were only responding to bad things which were done to them. The belief that if someone is attacked, they must have done something to deserve it.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, will make the whole world blind and toothless.
<snip> Precisely.