Ah yes, rape and murder, the two most hilarious topics in the world...

I suppose the fact that Damien Echols (sp?), one of the West Memphis 3, who, as far as I can tell is innocent by any objective analysis, has been repeatedly raped in prison is consider okay just because he is in prison, and is also a good topic for jokes.
I am not even certain why this thread even exists since it really isn't up to any of us to decide if Paul Addis is allowed to attend Burning Man again-- that is pretty much up to the legal system and the Burning Man organization. So he set the Man on fire. So what? The Man is pretty much just an arbitrary symbol of the event. From what I have heard no one was even seriously injured, Burning Man went on, the Man got rebuilt, and in the early days of Burning Man people might have even cheered Paul Addis on in the spirit of anarchy. How much "fame" Paul Addis gets out of his stunt is directly pro-proportional to how much attention you wish to lavish on him-- whether the attention is positive or negative. He could always have gone about attention seeking in the manner of the Peter Gabriel song "A Family Snapshot"-- where the person(s) in the song are calculating out a political assassination for peak viewing hours. If people are given the attention that they crave for bad behavior, they will perform the bad behavior. It is a part of child psychology-- an angry reaction is better than being ignored. It doesn't actually change when the child becomes an adult.
Now, please return to talking about what you will do to Paul Addis if he shows up at Burning Man, and make certain everyone knows that if they set the Man on fire early, they will be talked about for years on eplaya and elsewhere....

"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch