[javajosh]

Also, the small fees paid to the bully is spread out over the victims. The large fee required to stop the bully in that instance is also spread out across all victims. So each victim is computing "small < large" not "10x small > large". The latter may be true for the attacker, but unless the victims band together, it's not true for the defenders.

This is the perniciousness of the petty injustice. It's the small fees, the little charges, the nickels and dimes that we all ignore because life is too short, and they add up to great fortunes. It's wrong and should be illegal, but that's how the world works right now.