How is it that a teenager doing nothing but walking home from the store is now implied to be the

[FBaggins]

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That describes every single person in the world at every single moment of every single day; therefore it's meaningless.

The first statement (taken at arm's length) is correct. The second does not follow. But that was one point of my initial reply. There are things that we don't know. There's no point in making them up in order to make a point, because all that really does it imply that our point is not valid (that we have to make things up).

First of all, so what if he wasn't a role model for other kids? Why is that even worth mentioning, except to impugn him after his death?

To again make the point that we don't have to imagine some perfect angel in order to believe that GZ was wrong to behave as he did. A woman who accuses a man of rape if no less to be defended if we find out that she's a prostitute. Vigilantes sometimes go after actual criminals... but it doesn't make them less of a vigilante.

That's simply blaming the victim

It really isn't (regardless of your expectation that I would say that). It's the opposing position to the ongoing implication that TM needs to be a little angel in order to worthy of being safe from vigilantism.