**Fear, not greed, is the primary motivator for bad actors. **

People are at their morally worst out of fear, not greed. Fear is the driving force behind various crises and political decisions, such as the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Fear is used to justify actions like the Patriot Act and COVID-19 lockdowns. Even leaders who are greedy use fear to manipulate others. The Bitcoin and Ethereum communities also demonstrated their morally worst behavior driven by fear during the Bitcoin Cash small vs. big block war crisis and the DAO hack incident. Fear led to the abandonment of principles and the advocacy of unethical actions. Despite the fear-driven decisions, the situation eventually worked out well for Ethereum, as there hasn't been a violation of immutability since then.