Charles, I guess great people can be expected to have great faults. Perhaps society has forgotten the ability to forgive personal eccentricities that are as nothing compared to other contributions. But then, if a smart person deliberately turns their intellect to causing conflict, there are few effective responses apart from sending them to their room.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1