Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[linayar]

If it's a bad community masquerading as a good one just because they'd get the suspending slap on the wrist otherwise, at best it's average, at worst it's outright bad.

A community deals with people's interaction, so you being bad on your own has nothing to do with the community. Deterrence is a valid reason for punishment in law enforcement and expecting that a community can only be good if the people are truly good without law and order being necessary is unrealistic.