I think one of the ways people can learn to avoid fear of *social death*, is to relearn how to be inclusive toward people thoughts and ideas, not divisive of them. There is no need to make everything about one side or another. There is enough divisiveness in the real world, the walking world, the world of wars and the world of fear. Inclusive does not mean agreeing, on Hive we have he means to *ignore* that which we do not like. We also have the ability to **down vote**, that we do not want to see. I would like to see a return to the original intent of the down vote and that was to protect Hive. The old stated reasons of Spam, Plagiarism, Reward Dispute and Abuse. to often now the down vote is used to create divisiveness. If people do not like Hive then they do need to go elsewhere, down voting of anti-Hive rhetoric is needed. 

There are those on Hive that would like to see Hive survive, there are many cultures where shunning is actively used, the people do not want the divisiveness to take hold in their community, so people are shunned, and that is what the down votes on anti-Hive are in effect doing, protecting the Community.