disclaimer: I'm not justifying AT ALL what happened. Judging from the OUTCOME, this was a terrible, horrible, and sad episode.
So the project itself was admirable in your eyes. Just the outcome, not so nice...
Now, that's the problem.
I just want to point out, that if this wasn't done by these people, but by a group of non-meshichist, something inside of me says that the backslash wouldn't have been even close to the way it is happening now.
What a fantastic hypothetical. As if the other groups would hypothetically also throw benches at the NYPD, and also do ABC...XYZ.
As if to say, any other day of the year, these are peace-loving little lambs who wouldn't hurt a fly, and everyone just has an agenda picking on them.
Sorry, that doesn't fly. Only one group there behaves like Antifa.
and if this story had happened 15 years ago, before the social media craze, it wouldn't have been mushc of a "horrible story" either. IOW, the issue here is the chilul hashem which was caused, lav davka the actual nezek.
You may be 100% correct, but this happened now, not 15 years ago. Such a silly argument to defend these hooligans.
Yes, this was a reckless wild idea - but judging from the actual nezek done - (not judging from the outcomes) - I think the backlash is more agenda-driven.
should they have thought about what the outcome could have been - that's something to discuss..
"Something to discuss"?! WHAT?!
Was it a super duper dangerous excavation - that's also a discussion/argument to have.
Oh yeah, just a nice discussion for the Mikve. Now, let's get back to digging.