Never understood the idea of just letting bad people get away with something. It just encourages the person to keep it up until they do it again, it’s bad enough Admiral Patrick just went to their Kirk account waiting for it to blow over.

That's a pure mastercrafted, genuine, bonafide Strawman.

We aren't talking about money here. Or anything of real value. We're talking about interacting with randos on the internet. It's fun. It's interesting. It is completely superfluous and not necessary. Fedihosting Stichting could decide they don't wanna bother with this any more, and a large chunk of the fediverse goes poof. There is no permanence on the internet. Even the archives are spotty. I've cycled through so many aggregators, forums, IRC channels, XMPP whatever from the early internets to now. It all turns to mulch eventually. Meta will ditch facebook once enough of the olds die off. Reddit will be another Digg someday. So, getting a ban and getting butthurt over it is simply not worth the energy. I've given my share of fucks and none of it mattered. This too doesn't matter.

I think you have a few things a bit misunderstood.

Loosing $40 to learn someone you thought was a friend is actually a piece of shit, is honestly rather cheap. You know not to ever trust them with anyone or anything again. Now, saying that, you barrow $40 from me and don't pay it back you'll never see so much as a kind word spared for you in the future. I'll not be upset though. Seems your integrity is worth less than a good bag of weed. Says more about you than i think you understand.