Yeah exactly. And I get that. As I said, I think a lot of people are tired of the way the Twitterati seek to punish people without the facts or simply because they can. It's puritanical and vindictive and it needs to stop. Again, that's why I criticised Frederick Joseph's tretment of Emma Sarley.

But I worry (and I'm not necessarily saying you're doing this), that our (rightful) distaste for the way that innocent people get caught in the crossfire, means we'll become unwilling to point to genuinely unaccceptable behaviour when we see it.

Let's reframe.

What would you think if a male employee was charged with sexually assualting a woman in a park? Say he'd been walking through the ramble with his unleashed dog, she was rude to him about it, and in the ensuing argument, he groped her as a show of power. Just to show her that he could get away with it. I'm not talking serious sexual assault, but he deliberately touched her inappropriately and then lied about it.

Would you argue that he should be given another chance with the female employees in the office? That only if he assaulted any of them he'd deserve to be fired? Would you understand why the women in the office might find this unacceptable?

It's tough to be arguing this side of the case, because I'd so often be agreeing with you. I do think we should establish patterns of behaviour. I do believe in forgiveness and second chances and redemption. But I also believe some behaviour crosses the line on the first go around. I guess we're just not quite agreeing on where that line is.