I've been watching this one closely while dealing with my own crap and waiting for my time to run out. This thread to me seems to have run astray. I sympathize with butterflies here, but will admit I have a bias for youth, and might not feel the same way if it were someone more mature. I also relate to Odeon. Sometimes when the children of I2 are naughty, I've had a compulsion to lecture.
My perspective: Sir Les distancing himself from this place may not really be about the place, but maybe his own behavior in the past toward others, or even his own sense of involvement in this particular happening. I really don't know. However, Sir Les' main point to be made was that someone was hurt. I found it interesting, early in the thread, the question was raised about if it was worth it. Of course it was intended as a question about if it was was worth it to defend the site. I think that's a very important question, was it worth it, and one people can only as of their self.