Somehow, an act that caused no economic harm to anyone has everyone in a tremendous uproar. We need a picture of a cat and a car analogy to go with it.

Economic, capital, material harm. If the only harm you can valuate is monetary or physical then we've lost the game already.
:/
You gave me a sad.
The psychological and emotional harm that occurred was the following:
The creater of an altcoin is sad that his altcoin as initially defined was not viable.
Some people who misunderstand what took place and/or are not in possession of the facts are angry.
The first is a fact of life for the altcoin community, I expect it will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
The second is unavoidable on the internet.
Either add to the list of emotional/psychological harm, or explain why I should be upset by either of it's current entries.