It is perfectly reasonable to remove positive trust for a user if you don't agree with their trust decisions. I'm not sure why we're even debating this.
It is, however IMO that isn't a similar situation. Of course it is reasonable to remove trust from someone if they make questionable trust decisions, I just don't think that one rating one one user is enough to warrant this. However this is up to personal interpretation, so I won't try to use it against you.
I also find it strange that you are using this as an argument, and yet still have direct positive trust for users such as
Spondoolies-Tech. You're fine leaving trust for people who have not followed through with sales commissions, but considered removing positive trust for someone who was linked to someone who trusted someone that you didn't like? It seems a bit backwards to me.
It sounds like you're upset that I contacted the user and gave him the courtesy of being able to choose how I handled the removal of TwitchySeal from my trust network instead of just taking action.
I'm upset that you told a user "Remove your trust or I will do it for you" and see nothing wrong with that. If the roles were reversed and you were told the same thing, would you honestly accept that because he was nice about it? Regardless, I believe a lot of this is a misunderstanding and considering certain things I see no point in arguing about it further.
However, I'm also confused about what you mean by your trust network. Are you talking about the string of positive trusts (You->Mitchell->RHavar->TwitchySeal) or are you talking about the DT network? If the prior, at what point does your 'network' end?
I think a reasonable person would come to the same conclusion.
Please don't throw underhanded insults at me; I have done no such thing to you.