This. You can disagree with someone, but trying to make them feel bad about how they feel only discourages anyone from putting their opinion out there and disables communication.
I'm just going to add my unasked-for two cents because I feel like I fall somewhere in the middle ground, here.
I was not close to Riley. I never met him and barely had any interaction with him on the boards. That doesn't mean, however, that I didn't feel the shock and betrayal that someone in...