I'm assuming you meant your most recent post, and yes, I did. If you want a specific response to that one, here it is.
The difference is, the people arguing for lynching him were still discussing; we were still having the discussion, talking, it's this thing people do to work out what they're going to do next.
What, did you want him to come out and say "hey guys, I'm a mad scientist with an assassin bot. Should I kill him?" There was really no way we could have know that there was a mad scientist who had just happened to choose an assassin bot. So discussion on that point was unlikely to happen, meaning it was up to him whether to attack or not.
You just leapt in and did something incredibly dangerous that could have resulted in a really bad situation for the town and acted without regard for the consequences. That sort of careless tomfoolery is dangerous and very bad for the town, furthermore what you did was statistically a better idea for the dopps than it was for the town.
He did a completely logical action based on a fallous assumption that a deadman bomb wouldn't be triggered by the assassin bot(and if we insisted Meph go directly by the book, the deadman bomb didn't cover day-kills or morning-kills). With that assumption, town has a moral imperative to use an assassin bot in that situation. Either a survivor or scum dies, both of which help the town.
The ends do not justify the means, especially when the ends aren't even certain.
I also loved your "end's don't justify the means" quote, how poetic. If you won the lottery, should I berate you for wasting your money on something that you have a statistically low chance of winning? He shot believing in what might have been considered a loophole in the rules. Personally, I'm glad he spotted it and used it when he did. He got rid of a horrible WIFOM situation, and killed scum.
Tell me, if you were scum, would you waste your possible "get out of lylo free" card for a chance at killing 2 townies, while at the same time sacrificing a possible ally? As I see it, scum would have only been at one townie advantage (assuming survivor sides with the scum), with the possibility of one of their own being killed. I don't see that as a huge statistical break for the scum. It would have been 5-4 the next day (assuming mislynch and 1 scum kill), vs 7-4-1 if he had not shot. So basically, a choice between lylo or mylo(again assuming that survivor goes with scum for security).
And that's assuming the scum want to take the chance that two townies will be killed. Doing the math with 4 scum and 9 townies with 2 killed from the blast, there was about a 46.2% chance of two townies dying. That's actually in the town's favor! There was a 54% chance of killing 1 or more scum with only 1 townie lost. Of course, I doubt they did the math, but statistically, it would have been in the town's favor for the deadman bomb to go off.
So, in sum, I say it was a statistically and strategically poor choice for scum to shoot the deadman bomb in the hopes of killing two townies.
Of course, it's entirely possible that he's scum trying to curry favor with the town, but just the way he's responding, I don't think so.