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True, but there's a line and once they've crosses it, they're the bullies.
Where exactly that line is and how to draw it is a matter for debate. Maybe there's another line where "This person is a bully, but still redeemable if he demonstrates willingness to change."
But anyone who's unapologetic and unwilling to change obviously needs to be shunned at the very least, and see consequences for the harms he's caused.
That still doesn't mean the majority of those vulnerable and radicalized people are irredeemable. Some are just uncritically following the trend. Which is wrong, but not as bad as being ideologically devoted to it, and their redemption can be as simple as showing them there's a different way to be.
The main focus should be on helping vulnerable people before they become radicalized, but at this point I suspect everyone has already been corralled into one camp or another... Unfortunately no one was willing to listen to my soap box years ago, back when it was still possible to avert this calamity, at least to the same degree.
Oh, hey, you're much more forgiving than me. Exposing the bullies for being exactly what they are using as an excuse to bully other people is just the first part of the "torching." Forcible restraint, treble-damages penalties, and public shaming are top of my list for responses to bully-bad actors.
However, you are right that reconciliation and acceptance of all people, not exactly for who they are when they're bullies, but for those aspects of themselves that are compatible with a society in which we at least don't harm each other is always important to do when possible.
Based on my childhood experiences, until those compatible aspects are found and the incompatible aspects removed from their expressed behaviors - forcible restraint and removal from the situations in which they are causing harm to others should be the norm, not the exception.