Sam Altman's home has now been attacked twice. Let that sink in.

Whatever your feelings about OpenAI, artificial intelligence, or the tech industry's role in reshaping the economy, we should all be able to agree on something basic: firebombing someone's house is not political speech. It's terrorism.

But here we are, watching a disturbing pattern emerge. After the bizarre lionization of Luigi Mangione — the man who allegedly murdered a health insurance CEO and was promptly turned into a folk hero by the chronically online — there's a growing fear that the AI industry is next in the crosshairs. And not in the "write your congressman" sense. In the "show up at someone's home with accelerants" sense.

The problem with celebrating political violence — even ironically, even with memes, even with a wink — is that it's easy to start and difficult to control. Once you establish that it's morally acceptable to attack individuals because you don't like their industry, you've opened a door that doesn't close neatly. Today it's a tech CEO. Tomorrow it's an engineer. Next week it's someone who just works at the wrong company.

Let's be clear: there are legitimate criticisms of the AI industry. The concentration of power, the lack of transparency, the potential labor market disruptions — these are real conversations worth having. San Francisco, of all places, should be leading those conversations with nuance and substance.

But nuance doesn't go viral. Rage does. And rage, left unchecked by a political class that's too cowardly to condemn violence when it's aimed at unpopular targets, metastasizes.

If you want accountability from tech companies, demand it through markets, legislation, and public pressure. That's how free societies work. The alternative — where we tacitly accept mob violence against people whose work makes us uncomfortable — isn't justice. It's the breakdown of the civil order that protects everyone, including the people cheering it on.

San Francisco has enough problems without importing political violence as a feature rather than a bug.