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[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Getting banned does suggest an inability to control oneself. That's one of Cicero's 4 cardinal virtues, self-control.

I guess you could argue, getting banned on an elf forum hardly merits the invocation of a cardinal virtue and in any event, maybe getting banned was self-control, to them.

Courage, another of Cicero's Core 4, might seem to allow it. But justice is a third of his 4, and justice is rendering to each what is due. Certainly, some restraint in a public elf forum is not unreasonable, nor unjust.

If self-control stands alongside justice, I do not think courage would be so foolhardy to issue veto against them. Wisdom, the final of Cicero's virtues, is the knowledge of what to defend, what to attack, and what to treat with indifference, and there too, getting banned seems to have little purchase.

We might be dealing with a person who does not pass muster at a moral level, possessing none of the sweetness that excellence in virtue brings to one's character.