This is bullshit, and you know it's bullshit, and if you can produce a read from REM by engaging with this topic then it has nothing to do with the subject matter itself, so why are you so intent on tripling down on this?
By your own premise you can argue that letting him go on his merry way would be worse than correcting him, because then he could be easily mislynched.
I think you TMI'd him as town and came up with some woeful justification for chainsaw defending him when it wasn't even necessary.