The shortest version of this is: a set of principles provides a basis for recourse and a means for people to reconcile their differences, but a code-of-conduct

The shortest version of this is: a set of principles provides a basis for recourse and a means for people to reconcile their differences, but a code-of-conduct is like just throwing them a bag of hammers and knives to police each other with. The only rational response to a code-of-conduct accusation is not reconciliation, but litigation by rejecting the legitimacy and standing of both the code and the accuser, by any and all means necessary, and in this sense they are a foundation of conflict that produces permanent struggle.