I think you misunderstand me Sirles, I completely agree that AS is no get out of jail card (though I reserve the right to try it if I'm ever arrested), I just don't think the provocation warranted the level of response. I mean someone insults you, you insult him back, end of story. So what if he made a stupid threat, it happens when people lose their tempers. What I saw was people deep into his personal life, insulting his wife, putting false information out there that could have real impact for him, doing real harm. What particularly bothered me was the righteousness being expressed, like because of keet's religious beliefs it wasn't just OK but morally imperative to do this to him because the cause justified it. To me, that's a very slippery slope because everyone has a different opinion on what is a just cause and what ends justify what means. Maybe you think that fighting homophobia justifies a harassment and impersonation campaign, maybe someone else thinks bullying of any kind justifies murder, a commonly expressed opinion on Aspie sites. Who's to say which is more wrong, since we're just talking about different points on the same moral relativity scale here.
Remember the lynchmob from when that girl killed herself after her neighbor strung her along on facebook? Imagine that something like that happened here and Joe Public was suddenly looking at this whole sordid little mess. Can you imagine what the reaction would be like? Especially at the Aspie on Aspie aspect? I mean half the world already seems to think we're just assholes with an excuse while the other thinks we're either dangerous or like Rainman, I don't even want to think about the backlash on something like that.
I'm just saying to look at it from an outside perspective and how the whole thing looks, which IMHO is pretty damn ugly.
