I'm still not convinced, here's a short list of low hanging fruit hypothetical situations:
Would you live a loving one suffer a great amount of anguish, pain, etc... be it a slow agonizing death in an hospital, at the hands of a bunch of sadistic cultists, letting someone be consumed by fire or something nasty like that or would you do the Humane thing and put them out of their misery?
I think you've mixed a few things together.
Imagine an imageboard, full of the usual "imageboarder". Now imagine that for every anon out there there's 2 DrJester, one is paid the other is doing it for free.
Now imagine that any website is like that, be it vichon, dvash, Something awful and kiwifarm combined.
4chan dramatically change depending on the hour, if you're unlucky enough to be in the USA timezone you'll mostly see raiders, shills, etc... on most boards. Meanwhile: https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/400514309
Ok lobster enthusiast.
But those were two different cases and more importantly, eras, Kyle received a lot of hate sure, but also a lot of publicity, the case was too big for it to be... tempered too much, no one knew who Aaron was and the feds went hard on him, simple as.
Dorsey is only 1 level up from Aaron Schwartz, who couldn't handle the heat and killed himself. A cowards way out. Now we have Preddit.
That is quite cynical, mate.
When the feds applies heat under your ass, they're thorough, don't say it as he just had to deal with muh mean replies on social a network.
The book of Choyer for Warhammer, Wizzards & Warrior for fantasy battle reports (Lotr, Warhammer, Witcher, etc...) and Mac's Lore for Colony Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Homeworld are pretty neat too.
An acceptable compromise.