> I think back to how we handled the Brendan Eich debacle. I (regretfully) came down on the punitive side of that argument. Can I ask why? I know many sober, m

> I think back to how we handled the Brendan Eich debacle. I (regretfully) came down on the punitive side of that argument. Can I ask why? I know many sober, moral and analytic people who got themselves quite riled up and (in my eyes) burned an accused man before the facts were all in. I understand why any angry crowd saturating a company's dial-in board would make any employer say "I don't know what's right or wrong - but you are a costly employee to keep on!" To me, that seems like the opposite of justice-seeking behavior. But, I've been told, that my views on these things are too blinkered, and I'd like hearing it from your perspective (esp. now that you've calmed down!)