Your average person even in the US feels that there is something unsavory about short selling, like they are saboteurs, gleefully profiting off destruction. Eve

Your average person even in the US feels that there is something unsavory about short selling, like they are saboteurs, gleefully profiting off destruction. Even people you'd expect to be more sophisticated feel this way; I don't want to bring up one company in particular that inspires a lot of weird conspiratorial thinking about short sellers in tech-person-type settings.