A fork isn't good. Bitcoin has the power and is the main currency today because it's a integrated currency, many persons trust it and support it. If there is a fork the community support will split also and we will have two weak currencies, bitcoin won't exist anymore.
It's easy for newbies to start investing in crypto currency, because everybody knows bitcoin always worth, with a fork the newbies will get lost and it will make them put away from this.
In some ways it is. I used to think that the hard fork should be avoided totally. But now, with the big blockers pushing for it in a meaningful way, I would say go ahead. I will follow Roger Ver and play it safe by converting some Bitcoins into Dash or something "safer" than BTC. If BU starts getting 50% of the miners' support, that is when I start converting.
