Sarah wrote:
Being utilitarian is notoriously difficult, because
how many of the
foreseeable consequences do you factor in? If you want to be
rigorously consequentialist, factor in the serious physical assault
(or worse) of an admin, or an admin's kids.
Has anything like this even been threatened, BTW? I didn't follow the
matter closely but the most recent issue seems to have been a matter of
misleading the police into questioning someone in an effort to cause
trouble with that person's employer. That's bad, of course, but a far
cry from threats of violence. Let's not get hysterical and play the
"won't someone think of the children?" card without some indication that
it's actually meaningful.