No, they shouldn't.
Here's why: Untrustworthy people run the gamut of bad behaviors.
A traitor is untrustworthy; (is also perhaps the MOST untrustworthy, and intends harm.)
A person who tells those little white lies is untrustworthy; (but while technically a liar, intends no harm.)
A traitor should hang for the crime of treason.
With your logic, so should the little white liar.
Once again, I agree with you (generally, but perhaps not specifically).
How do you determine if someone is, what you call, "a traitor"?
Is it perhaps simply based on the amount of stake they control?
Is it possible, according to your criteria, for a newb account with say, 100 steem-power to qualify as "a traitor"?
The example of treason (traitors) vs. little white lies was just to illustrate that there are varying levels of wrongdoing acted out by people who are "untrustworthy."
A traitor is a person who has been found guilty of the crime of treason. This is the type of treason that has the death penalty in America.
One who betrays a friend is also a traitor. But this type of traitor doesn't hang unless they do it themselves.
I guess we could consider the regular actions of people screwing over other people they don't even know, so they can get off, as traitors.
But this has nothing to do with my saying that Justin is untrustworthy. The example was to show that your statement that every untrustworthy person should be treated the same isn't right. The contrast between the traitor and white liar shows there IS a difference and not everyone who is simply "untrustworthy" deserves the same punishment.
The example was to show that your statement that every untrustworthy person should be treated the same isn't right.
It wasn't a statement (declaration or assertion).
It was simply a question.
I understand that you believe that some "crimes" deserve more punishment than other "crimes".
I'm just trying to figure out what specific "crime" you believe deserves to have their steem wallet account frozen.
For example if a small account holder said the exact same things and threatened the exact same actions and even did or attempted to do the exact same things as Justin Sun, do you believe their steem wallet account deserves to be frozen?
What if the account holder was a red-fish, or a whale?
Is it the specific words and actions that makes Justin Sun a "heinous" "criminal", or is it simply their incredibly large stake that makes Justin Sun a "heinous" "criminal"?
I'm just saying, it seems like a lot of powerful "community leaders" would probably be more than happy to start freezing accounts of "dangerous" individuals.
Do you personally believe that would be "inappropriate"?
Or do you think freezing steem wallets might be acceptable, but should be carefully reviewed on a case-by-case basis (just like the current blacklists)?
The only people that I know of whose accounts are being held hostage out of all of this, are the people who have their steem on the exchanges which are colluding with Justin Sun, using the money of regular steemians and giving it to Justin to attack our witnesses. For this alone, I think the leaders of those exchanges AND Justin, should be arrested and charged with embezzlement at the least.
Those are the only people whose accounts have actually been frozen, and they are still being robbed.
That's it for me. You just want to defend Justin. He is in the wrong, and this is the last I'm going to say on the matter. Good day to you.
You just want to defend Justin.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I've agreed with you from the very beginning that Justin Sun is untrustworthy.