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There's a lot I disagree with here. Basically, your point is that laws dont consistently align with our morals. Ok sure, thats fair, there will be laws that you morally agree or disagree with. However, if we're not going to judge by laws, then what are we going to judge by? https://twitter.com/NintendudeSSB/status/1279548413063966722
Your moral compass? My moral compass? The person who shouts the hardest on Twitter? You ask the question "what is ethical and morally correct" but you dont ask the actually important question which is "WHO gets to decide what is morally and ethically correct?"
The question "what is ethical and morally correct" isnt even the hard question. I can give you a notebook, and sure there'll be a few grey areas but at the end of the week I'm sure you'll have created a decent list of what you find ethical or morally correct.
However, who are you to decide that what you believe is morally correct should also apply to others? What you have to do instead then is to find what morals should apply to the entire Smash community, to which I say GOOD LUCK finding a consenus for the entire Smash community.
The Smash community is not "one big family". It consists of thousands of members, most of them not even active in tournaments, all of them having a different upbringing, background and value system, sometimes with radical differences between them.
Referring to the law does not mean "I agree with and approve of what's being said here" but rather "my country's or state's law states this rule, so who am I to decide if my moral compass is more correct than others (even if I personally disagree with this law)?"
It is completely fine to talk about what you believe is morally correct or incorrect. This is how you establish, uphold and negotiate community norms.
But who are you to judge what is right and wrong?
But who are you to judge what is right and wrong?
Even if you judged it is wrong, who are you to judge it needs punishment? Even if you judged it needs punishment, who are you to judge to what extent? Who are you even to judge that a law is arbitrary and doesnt make sense?
