Two similar pictures:
1) Fat man dresses in lingerie and stands on White House front lawn in protest of imported garments.
2) Fat man dresses in lingerie doing the cha-cha (or the time-warp perhaps) at a friend's party.
Is it news? Though the camera's lens takes the same picture I hope you would admit that reason yields two different answers. There's lots of factual things that could be reported but aren't news. Maybe the *first* such performance of Rocky was news, but now it's just facts.
And we get back to my point that context is king. My opera question illustrates the point exactly: context establishes and informs social norms (which you seem to support, while in the same breath calling me stupid...unique). You can't take someone's actions in one context and transpose it to a wholly different one without expecting an (at least) occasional reaction.
I'm not saying the OP has *no* point. I'm saying that these ex-cast members do as well. Given this a reasonable reaction is to form some sort of compromise. The OP *is* wrong in that he has flatly refused to consider such.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.