You're constructing a strawman. No one is trying to pin a medal on anybody here.
Some people are trying to publicly crucify Boyle (the irony is delicious, by the way) for exposing to ridicule those who deserve nothing else.
You don't need to construe his actions as particularly meritorious in order to not find him ethically deficient.
Ethics, by the way, are what the blog post linked to brought up. Ethics are also not the determinate factor in the conduct of a friendship, so you're doubly off in the woods.
Some people are trying to publicly crucify Boyle (the irony is delicious, by the way) for exposing to ridicule those who deserve nothing else.
You don't need to construe his actions as particularly meritorious in order to not find him ethically deficient.
Ethics, by the way, are what the blog post linked to brought up. Ethics are also not the determinate factor in the conduct of a friendship, so you're doubly off in the woods.