I agree.
It should be obvious by now that the conciliatory, “Please be reasonable ...,” “We know your heart’s in the right place ...,” “Don’t want to overreact ...” approach is not working. Charitably, I’ll say it was reasonable to give it a try, but continuing to pursue a clearly failed policy is not rational.
St. Paul says of an unrepentant sinner, “I delivered him up to Satan for the destruction of his flesh” in the hope of saving his soul.
AMEN!
You’ll likely note I used that Scripture in my rant above before I read your post.
Thanks.