If it ends up just being just the DAO that get's "bailed out"(that's not the right phrase for what's happening, but I don't know a better one), then it would to

If it ends up just being just the DAO that get's "bailed out"(that's not the right phrase for what's happening, but I don't know a better one), then it would to hard to make a just moral argument. But there have been a lot of contracts go sideways: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract-security/ https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract... If they rolled the whole system back and said, "Ok lesson learned. Let's not fuck this up again." I could get behind that. People who get ahead by doing some black-hat stuff would be pissed, but to bad for them. Maybe they'll decide to stay away. If they give DAO a hard-fork refund, they're going to need to convince the community that this wont happen again, or explain the rules about when it might happen again. Otherwise, no one is going to trust the system.