Every experienced player is meant to be an example, yet every player and faction have their specific roleplay and if it's a story about killing humans due to some past offense - I see no reason why shouldn't it happen.
The players themselves, newbies or good old ones, usually provoke the situations when the behavior assuming the fast elimination before the opponent runs and docks is reasonable. Let me rephrase, the people give bad example, the newbies follow, the faction in opposition (this time, Wilde) alters its tactics to fast and furious assault with no point in writing poems to the opponents, and we have people running and docking and calling battleships again, which in result makes everyone frustrated and it repeats again and again.
It's a foul circle.
And then everyone whines.
Keep in mind, that's just an example, a common occasion, not a reference to any actual situation.