You see it as harm, but there are people who would not mind reducing activist energy to unavoidable minimum. As such, draining people's energy and channeling it

You see it as harm, but there are people who would not mind reducing activist energy to unavoidable minimum. As such, draining people's energy and channeling it through another outlet is a very useful endeavor. Same could be said about sport ( or its close sibling - national level politics in US ).