# Three steps to the ban

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**Created:** [November 23, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-steps-to-the-ban/603833 "2011-11-23T02:46:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-steps-to-the-ban/603833/10 "2011-11-23T04:33:27Z")

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“The straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

Sometimes the final offense is something that perhaps we would counsel someone else for. But when it’s part of an overall pattern of bad behavior, enough is too much. There’s negative consequences to cumulative bad behavior and to give someone with a longstanding pattern of misbehavior the same consideration we would to a first-time offender is no way to run things.

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