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A good response. Informative, mature, and well thought out.
True, but publicly wishing ill upon someone for something as trivial as this (i.e. something with zero basis in the real world) is extremely toxic. The odds are slim he'd ever be seen on Lemmy, saying the kinds of things some people here have been saying publicly demonstrates a tremendous lack of empathy and maturity. And that this community is so accepting of those kinds of words is a real problem.
There's also the Sam Bent article, that was posted here on Lemmy. That's probably the most directly harmful thing someone's done. By sharing that article it's possible someone here was inspired to harass him, and even though nobody probably did the risk is non-zero.