You should understand football. What match goes by without tackles, handballs, warnings, and red cards? There's no need to draw parallels. It's simply a matter of proportionality between the offense and the punishment. It would be more appropriate to initially develop a scale of punishments or principles of accountability, and then proceed with "executions."
...we need to be gentler with people and look at questions more broadly... ©
Develop a scale, and we'll talk about it.
Unfortunately, your wish to look at questions more broadly doesn't allow for a "broader" view of my decisions.
Communication with people in ICQ and making decisions in a tournament differ because there is a BIG DIFFERENCE, as any decision made in favor of one party is disliked by the other.