Comment by Kim_Bruning

A new kind of software displayed an interesting failure mode. The 'victims' are acting like adults; but I've seen that some other people (not necessarily on HN) have taken the incident as a license for despicable behavior.

I don't think anything is a license for bad behavior.

Am I siding with the bot, saying that it's better than some people?

Not particularly. It's well known that humans can easily degrade themselves to act worse than rocks; that's not hard. Just because you can doesn't mean you should!