Another is concern that the cure is worse than the disease. I.e. the drama and relationship damage caused by trying to expel them in the community might hurt the community more than removing them. Like there are scissor statements, there are also scissor people.
You might be in a community where you don’t think people will agree with you that they’re a bad actor, even if you can establish the truth about what events occurred in the world, because there’s a value disagreement between you and your community.
Also concern about them and their well-being. Being publicly ostracized is very traumatizing and scary for most people. Particularly if they seem mentally fragile, you might fear the consequences for them or potentially for others who aren’t just you if they’re forced to endure a public ousting. You might fear or be averse to causing them pain. You might have sympathy for them, particularly if you think the sense in which they’re a bad actor was in turn caused by something bad happening to them.
You might fear that exposing their bad behavior will bring harm to others who are associated with them. For example, if they’re part of some oppressed minority group and you fear that people will overgeneralize from their bad behavior to being mistrustful of or more prejudiced against others.
Another is concern that the cure is worse than the disease. I.e. the drama and relationship damage caused by trying to expel them in the community might hurt the community more than removing them. Like there are scissor statements, there are also scissor people.
You might be in a community where you don’t think people will agree with you that they’re a bad actor, even if you can establish the truth about what events occurred in the world, because there’s a value disagreement between you and your community.
Also concern about them and their well-being. Being publicly ostracized is very traumatizing and scary for most people. Particularly if they seem mentally fragile, you might fear the consequences for them or potentially for others who aren’t just you if they’re forced to endure a public ousting. You might fear or be averse to causing them pain. You might have sympathy for them, particularly if you think the sense in which they’re a bad actor was in turn caused by something bad happening to them.
You might fear that exposing their bad behavior will bring harm to others who are associated with them. For example, if they’re part of some oppressed minority group and you fear that people will overgeneralize from their bad behavior to being mistrustful of or more prejudiced against others.