Yeah, my thought is pretty high-level, basically: a lot of professional norms exist for good reasons, and if we violate them—and especially if we violate a lot of them at the same time, as happened here—then this produces the kinds of circumstances in which these disputes tend to arise.
Certainly, there’s some cost-benefit here with respect to specific norms, and specific contexts, that could be, and I’m sure will continue to be, litigated. But everyone involved has been really harmed by this—in terms of their time being wasted, emotional energy sunk into this, and people’s reputations—and that just seems really unfortunate, given that it is not that hard to substantially reduce the risks of these kinds of things happening by adhering to standard professional norms.
Yeah, my thought is pretty high-level, basically: a lot of professional norms exist for good reasons, and if we violate them—and especially if we violate a lot of them at the same time, as happened here—then this produces the kinds of circumstances in which these disputes tend to arise.
Certainly, there’s some cost-benefit here with respect to specific norms, and specific contexts, that could be, and I’m sure will continue to be, litigated. But everyone involved has been really harmed by this—in terms of their time being wasted, emotional energy sunk into this, and people’s reputations—and that just seems really unfortunate, given that it is not that hard to substantially reduce the risks of these kinds of things happening by adhering to standard professional norms.