From http://boingboing.net/2011/08/31/rob-interviewed-in-the-economist.html :
Mr Anil Dash called on sites with communities and forums actively to police themselves, rather than allow the most egregious participants to set the tone.
“If your website is full of assholes, it’s your fault,” he writes bluntly. “And if you have the power to fix it and don’t do something about it, you’re one of them.”
The statement in bold makes sense.
Substitute ‘website’ with ‘world’
and it makes even more sense!
If we can be non-a**holes,
but choose not to,
we are a**holes indeed!