May or may not be the case.  Probably is to some extent, but that's hardly unusual in a population base.  These things are more analog than binary.

Josh got fucked over by someone on a Bitcoin deal back in the old days.  Some auction for a vacation rental or something.  The community basically liked the auction dude and didn't like Inaba who has always been identifiable as a general prick and everyone gave him grief about it.  I'm sure he was quite but-hurt and it was at that point that he probably said 'fuck em' and didn't have any more qualms about running scams with his foot to the floorboard.  Against the general Bitcoin community, that is, but newbies are much more conducive to being scammed so they take the brunt of his payback.

Inaba is undoubtedly much more intelligent than most people here.  He's not going to be shamed into stopping what he's doing.  Just the opposite because the more successful he is at it the more weight is added to the assertion that he's bright and the victims are stupid.

I will say that Inaba seems to try to use graphical images to paint himself as some sort of a healthy outdoorsman type when in reality his a skinny drugged-out looking guy.  Such self-consciousness is often associated with other psychological maladies.