I just dont understand why people want to do a hardfork, when the risks associated with it are just too big.
They are either dishonest or dont understand what they are talking about:
Therefore if the bitcoin protocol gets changed only by a small amount, some people will abuse that opportunity, and gradually add more changes, until bitcoin goes off it's original mission, and becomes centralized.
If there is consensus, the risk is small.
Call me dishonest or ignorant if you like.
I thought you were calling for calm?
There isn't a consensus (for now). And also there are other risks as well, like the all nodes uppgrading to similar client, which exposes the network to 0 day exploits.
Also the network propagation time is also problematic.
And many other.
It's a collection of multiple issues that comes up when you talk about hardfork.