Is this really worth a warning?

[septimus]

I think the Warning was quite wrong because, as SenorBeef states, the insult was clearly embedded in a false hypothetical. But even ignoring that, the rule about insults seems unclear and arbitrary.

Here’s a post in MundanePointless that did NOT get a Warning.

@Bone

I think it’s indicative that septimus believes it to be a positive event when firefighters are shot while performing their duties. We’ve already had someone praising suicide as a positive event as well. Everyone has different beliefs - what they consider positive speaks to their character I suppose.

Was this less [insert adjective compliant with rules] than calling someone a “loser”? Does it avoid a warning just because it doesn’t contain a syntactical structure clearly of the form “Septimus is [bad word]”?