Two wrongs do not make a right. I am sorry to bring up the comparison here, cause I feel what I’m using here is too extreme, but it’s the best thing I can come up with in the moment.
After World War II had concluded in a victory for the allies, many cities would parade and celebrate the liberation of their countries from the axis forces. Everyone can agree that that axis was probably one of the greatest evils in modern history.
As part of these parades, the women that would sleep with the German invaders were brought out and humiliated in public. People chanted terrible things at them, recited the acts they had one, shaved their heads bald, beat them up and in some cases even worse. This was all done to cheering crowds.
Nowadays, the consensus is that what was done was morally unjustifiable.
Now, I do not mean to imply that the current situation here is in any way comparable, of course not. But the point remains that while ERP (the axis) is a much greater evil than public naming and shaming, such acts are still reprehensible and those who partake in it gleefully should stop and question themselves if this is really the right course of action, considering you already have plenty of more discrete tools at your disposal to deal with it, that are all more effective than naming and shaming and sometimes even bullying.
Remember that in the end, the person on the other end of the screen is also just a human being just like yourself, who probably didn’t mean anything bad by what they do. No matter how vile you think it, there’s no reason to potentially cause emotional harm to a group of people who are usually socially awkward or cloistered up at home and quite often use this as an outlet for otherwise repressed feelings.
Such shouldn’t be done in a PG12 game, I agree, and definitely not in public chat channels, but here we are and what’s done is done. That still doesn’t justify, in no situation, the opposite.