Yes. If you pretend to be the better person, you better make sure you act like it. If you give up and fall back to name calling, people will judge you based on your actions. "But I used to be the good guy" doesn't count at all.
If people judged name callers based on their actions then how did we get here?
people have absorbed so much american "the left is always evil and the right can do no wrong" propaganda they dont even realize it.