[nearmuse]

> Pathos is as important as logos.

As far as Stallman's choices of what to debate, and how, and where are concerned.

The problem that is being raised here is with the ethics of those who smear an individual's reputation while refusing to admit they were wrong and knowing full well that it is impossible to undo the damage even if they did, and of those who end up supporting the former by shunning that individual.