Watching the Palmer Luckey/Calacanis feud unfold has given me a great deal more respect for Palmer. Sometimes online sniping like this looks petty or base from the outside, and sometimes it is, but there are just so many liars out there, so many people who make stuff up, so many bad actors who are nonetheless given a pass because their targets don't fight them back and/or because there are no social consequences for acting in an unprincipled way.

There's much too much tolerance for bad characters. This is not an ideological thing, really. There's the idea that you shouldn't wrestle with pigs if you don't want to get mud on you, but sometimes you have to fight them and let everyone see it.

It's tempting to ignore this stuff, especially once you get to Palmer's stature. To let these slights stay in the past, unseen and unexamined. That would be my instinct, tbh. It's refreshing to see someone not do that, to refuse to let Calacanis off the hook. Grace is good. But people also need to be made to facedown their bad behavior.