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it can be avoided if the people who want to do it can think about before they do it. If people simply thought "well, i wouldn't like it if i were doxxed", that would kill it immediately. The popularity of doxxing these days has just been exacerbated by the fact that there has been an increasing internetization of everything, which as you have pointed out, has been a very easy tool to reach for when a lot of people already look at the world through moral justification: "THAT PERSON IS AN ASSHOLE, IM GONNA TEACH THEM A LESSON". Of course, looking beyond the basics of the golden rule, there are times when doxxing makes complete sense: for example, doxxing CIs and cops is way to protect people who you give a shit about from them.