Are you crazy? Of COURSE griefing hurts the population. You don't think a shit ton of people left when they were killed at the bank with all their plat (because guards wouldn't assist in the first few weeks)? You don't think anyone said "fuck it" when they were killed without provocation on the boat, or 10 zones away from their bind point, etc.? Sure griefing was a part of classic but it wasn't nearly as common as it is on red99.
Is griefing the only problem? Of course not. But if you think you're helping the population every time you corpse camp someone, you're nuts.
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