Respectfully, I do not conflate ignoring and flouting. In a g-g-grandparent, I call these responses 'not feeding the utility monster' and 'poking it with a stick'. Capitulation would correspond to 'feeding the monster'. I implicitly advocated not feeding the monster; i.e. ignoring the claims of offense.

What I may have done, though, is to conflate VM with one of the many people here who advocate 'poking them'. If so, I plead guilty with extenuating circumstances; I was seduced by the formal beauty of a side-by-side comparison of two diagnoses of mental malfunction:

1. They dislike us; we dislike them.
2. They therefore gain utility by annoying us; we gain utility by annoying them.
3. They annoy us by inducing us not to draw Mohammed; we annoy them by drawing Mohammed.
4. But that only annoys if we want to draw Mohammed; and the other only annoys if they despise having people draw Mohammed.
5. So we self-modify to want to draw Mohammed; and they self-modify to feel real pain when people draw Mohammed.
6. We accomplish this self-modification by convincing ourselves using arguments involving slippery slopes, lines in the sand, and the defense of freedom, together with an intuitive understanding of their devious psychology and a grasp of game theory. They accomplish this self modification using arguments involving slippery slopes, lines in the sand, and defense of the faith, together with an intuitive understanding of our Satanic psychology and a grasp of game theory.
7. And a jolly time is had by all.