Nay bewildered guest, it wasn't just the pompous moral holier-than-thou lecture the guest was being subjected to. Let us not forget the holier-than-thou one said his friend was trying to make money off of Paddy O'Brien's life work, and then insinuated it was Paddy being cheap about it! The nerve, eh? The only reason why people here are defending the holier-than-thou one, is because he is their good friend. You see, the dark side of the group mind is that when one individual in the group is an eejit, and someone calls them out on it, the entire group mind feels persecuted and under attack. So they lash out at the source, just like a very big group of eejits, to protect one of their own, who made them all look like a bunch of eejits.

There is flaming by the Mudcat group mind, and then there is the art of flaming. The anon guest was engaged in the art of flaming. The Mudcat group mind was just reactionary flaming.

Are you getting a better picture of how this all works now bewildered guest?