>But one night, Sam and I do something disruptive and annoying, and suddenly five or six people are offended to the point where some of them actually want to leave forever and some are so upset that they spend hours writing message forum posts explaining *why*? How wrong is THAT?

I see what you mean, point well-taken. I think I was trying to figure out why this mass stupidity of posts about hurt feelings and such even occurred, thereby missing your aim completely. Sorry 'bout that...