These are some pertinent ideas. I like your netiquette. And also your position on flagging, down voting, freedom of speech,
But isn't quite normal to a young, bold and without great experience community to have diseases ? Even one that looks like cancer but that can be benign in the long run ? After some hot discussions over the subject I think we'll come to the free framework we all want here.
I'm optimistic about the winner in the reason vs ego fight.
Yes but it does matter how we treat those diseases.
There are some advocating more censorship tools in order to silence trolls etc.
But that will only cause the problem to get worse.
Need to talk to the person behind the troll mask and get them to stop, or you need to mute them.
Otherwise only the speech of the elite are protected.