I honestly don't mind the shorting as long as it's not paired with disinformation, legitimate shorters who think price is too high or take advantage of lack of news I have no issue with unless they start incessantly downramping.
I'm ~simple man and don't like complications and I'm very ignorant and absolutely uncomprehending when it comes to bullies and shorters.

This somehow reminds me of:
Pau Casals: ‘I am a simple man. I don’t like complications. The same in music. I like what is natural, to read what the music demands and I try to do my best. The same in life. For me, this is civilisation.’
Anyway
For me, besides the extremely rare cases to detect fraud this is a thoroughly destructive investment strategy. If someone thinks that a price is too high they should just move on and not buy, or sell. If many see it the same way it will be settled by anyway.
For me it already starts with the absurdity that they are allowed to sell something whose proprietor they may be but do not own it. I sell something that I do not own. I can't think of another example but maybe you can. Maybe if I borrow money to lend to someone else shows what I mean. This is more like a betting office but not a serious trading platform.
The origin is ok and if it is used to uncover something. But that seems to be no longer the case even if there are certainly individual examples. It seems to me more established like the two sides of a coin. One invests and provides capital and the other side works exclusively with the bet against it. And that almost includes manipulation. Just by throwing borrowed shares into the market the SP is dumped.
You know those articles that set the mood. If someone does not trust a company then he should not make his money available as an investment. That should be enough. Casino aside and for the detection of fraud there are certainly other mechanisms. I know with that I'm naive and that will never happen but this place is also for
whining 
isn't it?
So no, I have no sympathy for these nefarious unscrupulous anti-social w******. For me it is and remains a bet, but not in the casino, but on the work of real people.
An acquaintance has also made himself unappealing to me. He told me that he sold all his shares from all stocks last year and only went short with the watering can. And even such carrion-picking retailer act wrongly from my point of view. Let them sell and that's it. This approach is more like a betting office than a trading platform.
I want to help build something not disrupt something.
That's why I don't mind CRs and the dump if I know the money is being spent wisely and not wasted.
For me it's like with bullies I don't have to respect or build sympathy for them either. May they also burn.)
So enough I have hyperventilated. May they all burn!
Life rises splendidly on ashes.)
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And if not burn then at least put in the pillory on the stage of shame. That was in the Middle Ages very effective.
Some even still exist.