What if by freezing CH's account I'm doing the same disservice as VB to Ethereum community with that fork? The lesson won't be learned if I babysit those who decided not to use an escrow service...
I agree.
...Still, it would be sad to see those deals going wrong. But messing with the solution of a "centralised intervention on the network", as proposed (e.g. CfB freezing accounts on the ledger, etc) would greatly hurt the "decentralised nature" of everything that we are doing here, IMHO...
Like CfB said, this tiny issue of helping out some people who made a dumb decision is entirely unrelated to decentralization and the other aspects of 'TheDAO'. This is so primarily because Ethereum has launched and is decentralized, IOTA hasn't, so IOTA is not meant to be 100% decentralized yet, it's still being developed by the company that sold the software, so until the official launch it is not 100% decentralized.
What CfB was referring to is the fact that by helping out a few people who made a mistake that they should never have made, we might actually hurt other people in the long term by not letting people learn the hardway, which is usually the only way people learn.
And to be sure: IOTA is not some political ideology movement for decentralization. It's tech that need to be decentralized in order to serve it's function as a trustless transactional settlement system in the emergent 'Economy of Things', but the decentralization aspect is nowhere near as important in IOTA as it is in Ethereum, where it is the chief feature.
