Why did the community choose to hard fork after the ‘The DAO’ attack?

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Why did the community choose to hard fork after the ‘The DAO’ attack?

What the title says.

From what I’ve read, there was no issue in the ethereum standards/protocol, so why did this incident necessitate a hard fork?

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