Flagging is a good tool meant to check plagiarism and abusive tendencies of some foulks. It is bad and outside the founding ideals of steemit when it is used to fight competitors.

I believe that we all eat from the same plate being steemit and the more we are in number, the better for us and our 'mother' steemit program.

Competition in life is good because it engenders success and discourages monopoly.

Thanking you for sharing this post; it is highly thought provoking...