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Discouraging bad things is way way way worse then encouraging good things. People don't break out their pitchforks to encourage good things, but they do when they discourage bad things.
Bad things happen to innocent people when groups of like minded individuals decides to start making decisions for "the sake of humanity" or because they are morally right and their victims are "morally wrong" according to the oppressor.
I'll give a simple example. Who does more for society? The guy inviting everyone over for a BBQ to strengthen bonds between neighbors or the group of Saudis publicly hanging homosexuals?
One is encouraging good behavior and one is discouraging bag behavior (if you ask them). You see why I'm defensive about approaching situations with a "I'm here to discourage bad behavior" mentality ?
Consider this, think of all the terrible things and crimes that could be orchestrated through the email protocol. Undoubtedly, humans have been sold via email.
While I do not support this, I wouldn't also not support a government backdoor to all emails to catch the 0.00000001% of people who use the platform for nefarious reasons.
I'm not here to discourage bad behavior. However if I see, it I'm not going to leave it be. I'll at the very least speak up about it and/or call the individual out.
Encouraging the good is definitely the better way, but that doesn't make negative feedback any less necessary. Everyone does bad things from time to time, despite all the encouragement in the world to do good. Although their number is tiny, we can't ignore those who do evil because its pleasurable to them.
We have a responsibility to keep each other accountable in proportional ways. Even the Lightning network has watchtowers and penalty transactions for when people try to cheat. Proportionality is the key here. We should strive for the golden mean. Your email example is perfect. People have definitely done evil with email. That doesn't mean we install a mass surveillance state. That would be a gross overreaction.
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