You're spot on in pointing out such an action being necessary if they truly felt threatened.  Unfortunately, by doing so, you shed light on how only their feelings are threatened, and nothing more. They want a decency brigade, morality police based on their own cultivated sense of right and wrong, but somehow miss the scenario where someone else could also enforce their own morality onto them. Baffling how they miss the part where history has repeated itself time and time again. EDIT: Grammar