I was trying to put this into words and I like your explanation. People don't seem to realize that yes as long as you can trust the mediating party it may be a

I was trying to put this into words and I like your explanation. People don't seem to realize that yes as long as you can trust the mediating party it may be a net benefit to avoid negative signaling, but the problem is once those precedents are in place it only takes one bad actor to send it all crashing.