@bertoletdown said:

@ericwyman said:

I find it hilarious that there is an anti-technology thread...wait for it...on the Internet.

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Talk about a straw man. This is not an "anti-technology thread." Stop trying to derail and misdirect the discussion. It's a thread about ethics and community. Technology is at most peripheral here.

It's hardly a straw-man when based upon humor. And I disagree with this notion that any topic discussed that isn't part and parcel to the original thought is suddenly derailment.

Commenters wanted to wax poetic about what is and isn't acceptable behavior and activity during a show. Whether peripheral or not, some of that focused on the proliferation of electronic devices. I think it's hypocritical to say that being far far off in the depths of your psyche is somehow more in tune with the show than posting a tweet. Having that secondary discussion is hardly off-topic.

Ethics, community, fine. But this thread was about drugs, then technology. It's got shit to do with the guy's actions in the video. It's got everything to do with the assumption that he had ingested a hallucinogen and what those not embracing of the "let your freak flag fly" mantra might think about it since it was so easily shared through technology.