You wouldn't be violating a protocol by sending it back. The person who sent it to you also wasn't violating any protocol. 

Ultimate respect for decency and earned wealth should be the only protocol we care about. There's plenty of wealth for everyone to earn from now until the end of time.

Its not distain for humans. Its ultimate respect for protocols.

If someone disrespect the protocol, they deserve what the protocol decides is their fate.


nullcount

Hey, however you want to justify your disdain for the average human being...

_stacktoshi

bitcoin

If someone sends you 10 BTC by mistake, what would you do? 

B_for_Bitcoin

I accidentally turned my ASIC miner off for a few hours and missed a block. That miner stole it from me. If they were good natured and honest, they would send me that block reward for my mistake. /s 

If we could rely on people being good-natured, we wouldn't need bitcoin.

Furthermore, what is to stop me from claiming every txn I made was a mistake? In fiat world, you can clawback almost any payment if you make a big fuss about it. There's an entire industry of scammers who exploit "good natured" people, because fiat allows them to get away with it.