A question of LJ ethics

[chickenfeet]

I'd appreciate my esteemed friends comments on this.

Person X makes a f-locked post.

Person Y (in this case me) responds causing offence to person X though third party enquiries suggest it's no more than me being my, admittedly, robust self.

Person X deletes me from friends list but leaves the f-locked post and my response up. This allows allows random ad hominem attacks on person Y (me) but blocks me from replying. Polite back channel enquiries are ignored.

Is this ethical?

Comments

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Deleting someone from one's friends' list because s/he has offended one = unethical.*

If it's a one-off, I think just mentioning, as a warning, that it's been found offensive should be enough. Repeated instances might be a different matter. Because then it gets into the issue of whether it's ethical, or at least good manners, to post in someone's lj material they have indicated that they find offensive. (And I'd perceive a difference between 'offensive' and 'vigorous debate', though everybody draws the line differently on that one, I suspect.)