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by ghaff 485 days ago
I used to think that True Names were something of a solution. These days I'm much less sure. A lot of people don't seem to care.
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They are also dangerous, because the same shared reputation that allows a "good person" to hunt down a misbehaving "bad person" also allows the reverse, if the "bad people" are effectively outnumbered.

("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing" - the effective number of "good people" is often zero)