People can illicitly transfer Merit to others. What's the point of the merit system if such things happen?
The idea is to paint the trust to random users, just because of the slightest mistake!
Are you going to play the victim now?
"Merit is bad because I was abusing it and got -trust, but it's not my fault it was just a small mistake!"
Let us all have a minute of silence for your neutral trust lost forever in the great red sea.