Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
It's more that it can be difficult to remain a 'good person' when bad actors are constantly and intentionally shifting the goal-posts to suit their own purposes, in a never ending war to be the 'goodest' person and weaponize morality against people they don't like for unrelated reasons.

My SO is a moderately popular member of the art community for this game, and is by all accounts an absolute saint compared to me. If anything, she's essentially too nice and struggles with people taking advantage of that fact. She had a particular user, who happens to be a very active member of the FFXIV morality discourse, become intensely jealous of her growing popularity and decide to cancel her. This person, who she'd never spoken to a single time, started to make twitter callout posts about how her art triggers their mental illness and makes them depressed, and that making art of a certain character a certain way was toxic. Other people, who didn't look into the origin of the situation (The person trying to cancel her literally had a string of public tweets where they admitted they were doing it because they were jealous of her growing popularity), band-wagoned on and she was forced to lock her account due to all of the insane abuse she was receiving from supposed 'good people' fighting the 'good fight'.

This community tends to unquestioningly give these types of people the benefit of the doubt on issues of morality, which ultimately does a significant amount of genuine harm.

The bulk of your post is about a situation I have no knowledge of so cannot comment. The vast majority of players howerver don't have this problem as it's a lot more to do with being well known than being an FFXIV player.

The first part however is all about shifting blame for ones own behaviour onto other people. Nobody is forcing you into a virtue arms race though, just be true to yourself and try to treat others with respect.