Crime & Punishment

Those that strongly feel making poor choices in the same PvP game as above should be consequence free, they join anti ganking.

See, here you make a poor generalization of the people participating in anti-ganking community based on, not sure what, probably some really vocal individuals. None of the folks I regularly team up and chat with thinks that game should be consequence free nor that hi-sec should be turned in a pvp-free zone.
Come talking about such ideas in a-g channel (while not trolling) and you'll see that a good portion of us won't agree with you.

Exceptions exist, naturally, however - in such a public channel it is hard to say which of the NPC alts is a freighter pilot being scared to talk with his main and which are code propaganda drones (we've identified and banned a fair number of those polluting the channel with unconstructive trolling). Most of the active folks in ag have a sincere dislike for Code because of their toxic attitude to players who don't see things exactly the same way as they do and we generally agree on some ganking-related mechanics being broken. Pretty much that. Also, if you think that "carebears" are "bad" to Code, you should try seeing things from the other side.

^^ Being admiral root's alt

And here is the root of of the problem. The accepted view of anti-gankers is that CODE. is doing something wrong, and thus they are bad people. Since bad people should be treated badly, AG demonizes gankers as trolls and tear-extractors and tells players that they are victims, rather than just players who have lost a specific contest in a video game that they actually are. I am sure this is not universal, but that is the general narrative promoted by the leaders of the group and is the real toxic behaviour.

Love 'em or hate 'em, gankers are playing by the rules set out by CCP. Players may not like it but suicide ganking has been included in this game as one of the few (or only) risk to highsec players. The mechanics aren't broken - they are intended. I will not claim they are perfect, but they are generally working as CCP wants them to work. If you cannot accept these rules, you should just not play the game instead of campaigning (or just complaining) that they are "broken" because you lost something, or highsec isn't safe enough, and therefore CCP should change the rules in your favour. Better to just keep some self-respect and go do something with your free time that you actually like doing instead of being whiny and bitter over a video game.

Now carebears are another issue. Carebears, and to me that definition is a player who is feels entitled to an income but is unwilling to accept any risk. You are not a carebear if you mine or mission, but you are a carebear if you whine on the forums how you should be able able to do that without the risk of someone blowing you up. Red Frog Freight are not carebears because they haul for ISK, but haulers who complain on the forums about how bad bumping is because they can't AFK their cargo around are indeed carebears.

These real carebears are bad for the game. They are actively trying to reduce risk and thus stem the destruction that is needed to fuel the war-based economy of New Eden. Ironically, many of these carebears are industrialists who benefit from the demand this destruction stimulates, yet somehow feel so entitled that they should be excluded from it. Thankfully these rabid carebears now appear on the wrong side of history. CCP Seagull has been ratcheting up risk since she has taken charge with practically every change, next of which will be replacing the farmable Sansha incursions with doomsday-filled Drifter incursions in highsec. These carebear ideas are detrimental to a sandbox game, and the Code was born part of a player-based initiative to fight them.

But this is getting off-topic. The main point is that most gankers, even CODE. members, are just other people playing a spaceship video game as space criminals/holy warriors for fun. They do not hate you, or want you to cry or quit or whatever you have heard in the AG channel, and their criminal actions are not "toxic" but are an intended risk in highsec. Sure, they are more than happy to put your bad behaviour up on a blog for the world to see, but they are primarily just shooting spaceships in a game about shooting spaceships and are playing the game as a villain as intended by CCP to stimulate conflict. You don't have to like them, but don't get all spiteful and demonize them for their legal in-game shenanigans - just adapt and protect yourself, or better yet, if you don't like them go shoot them with antimatter.

The case for the defence....

It is a work of fiction, probably bad fiction, based on the events when the thread started, therefore pretty relevant to the thread.

There's always some muppet who takes things too far. Did I see John posting in this thread?

So much sense in one post, it's scary.