Your proposed norm is ripe for abuse by brilliant jerks. Just keep producing meritorious work and all incidents of you abusing people in your personal life will

Your proposed norm is ripe for abuse by brilliant jerks. Just keep producing meritorious work and all incidents of you abusing people in your personal life will be excused. (Your proposed norm is how things used to be, and still are to a large extent. This is bad and a failure of society, not a success.)