User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 281: Malice is Concealed by the Curtain of Night, Review./@comment-1896886-20120504093859/@comment-3987368-20120504103214

@Ish, I see your points, but I can't help but feel that, given recent incidences he has included, Mashima is trying to make some kind of statement.

Note that Bacchus and Cana aren't in the same guild and yet he did what he did anyway. I think Mashima did want us to dislike him, given what Bacchus wagered with Elfman during their fight (a night with Mirajane and Lisanna). In this sense, though they're in competition, Bacchus is still in the wrong.