However, if we don't keep correcting the idiocy every time we see or hear it, we're part of the problem.
I consider more of a problem when the "elitists" couldn't think logically and insisted that others follow them off a logic cliff.
Swartz didn't like the laws and decided that he would be the final arbiter of what's right and wrong and executed the people's will, whether they liked it or not.
He probably didn't expected the potato to be so hot.