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 :::::We certainly need to be a bit more flexible in our approach, as a community, with some editors.  There's a big difference between a responsible, sensibly-policed community and an oppressive one backed up with martial law.  We need more carrot and less stick in some cases. Back in the day, here in the UK we transported people for the equivalent of shoplifting as well as for far more serious crimes.  This wasn't a good thing.  We need to appreciate more shades of grey and learn better ways of dealing with them.  Fair enough, you can;t make an omelette without breaking eggs.  But it's just as true that, if you use a sledgehammer to break the eggs, it's still bloody hard to make the omelette.   "