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.