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At some point, communities and social circles need to be able to moderate themselves.
Disseminating nudes of peers should be grounds for ostracizing, but it really depends on the quality of people around you.
That doesn't work. It's nothing but an inconvenience to not talk to your neighbors or those around you. They'd just get even worse and make even worse friends online.
Ostracization doesn't work. Ever. Period. If they're bad enough, banishment works. Ostracization is just literally ignoring the problem.
That's just wrong. Unless you're hanging around shitty people, ignoring the bad ones by definition works.
A lot of social circles are dominated by either shitty people or by people too insecure to take a confronting attitude towards those shitty people.
It works for you. It doesn't work on a societal level.
Yeah, it does. It's literally how most friend groups keep undesirables from hanging out with them.
Your friend group is not a sufficient model for all friend groups. They're a fundamentally different set. All sets are not the same as the other, and taken as a whole it is fundamentally different than any individual group. I'm talking about all groups. Not your group.
I know. I've also said that "if the microcosm is so shitty that it doesn’t ostracize people who disseminate nudes, then the people in it deserve to suffer until they improve [or leave.]"
Not everyone is worth hanging around. I know it's difficult to be alone and most people would rather have shitty 'friends' than be alone, but that doesn't mean they won't suffer from being around shitty people.
I think the answer is to take the power away from shitbags by avoiding them. The more people who do this, the less influence shitbags have.
You seem to assume I'm taking the position of being polite to terrible people. Quite the opposite.