Nothing taken personal, I never do that on the internet :D
We can only onboard the masses when those with SP don't use it to split up the reward pool between themselves. Downvotes are the tool to return some of that back to the pool for everyone else. And as not every investor has time and the patience to deal with stuff like what's happening here, we have a trail which helps us to remove more rewards from the big vote traders to the rest of the community.
We also don't speak in military terms about it. It's a tool the blockchain provides to be used exactly for that reason. If somebody feels attacked personally and starts to connect it with violence it's their own issue.