:: it is hardly questionable, because it proves a point that many refined people cannot understand. If a strange white man walk up to a white man on the subway and starts asking personal questions, well that is pretty damn weird if it happens to you. I'd think the guy was insane or a potential criminal, end of story (i rode the subway for over 10 years, so I know how to behave on it, though thankfully I have driven everywhere for the past 20). If 4 white guys did the same thing I would know for sure that I was in trouble. I mean for sure. Now what would you do if 4 black guys did the same thing? (assuming that you are white like me. Or if 4 asians, or four Muslims). Obviously, you'd start shooting. Goetz did the right thing, to any normal male. Now the point of my point: subsequent crimes is after the fact evidence that these boys were evil little jackasses, not to Goetz or to me or to the cops, but to the whiney liberal.