I shudder to think of Stallman’s idea of “playful cleverness”

I suggest reading the linked page to see what he thought was an especially good example. It involved using chopsticks to eat Korean food in an unnecessarily difficult way.

I think it's very disrespectful for you to be speaking for someone who has just died, and at that, someone whom many of us on this website consider to be personal hero.

It is very disrespectful to come to a memorial where people are mourning a great loss and tell them that they are not allowed to mourn here.

You should frankly be incredibly ashamed. This is not a place or time to argue either, I have zero interest in carrying on a conversation with you and this is not the thread for it, so don't waste your time replying.

Your comment reads as if I had contacted you, but in fact it was you who initiated contact with me. You said, "This is not a place or time to argue" in a comment where you initiated an argument with me and "I have zero interest in carrying on a conversation with you" in a comment where you initiated a conversation with me.

About your central contention, that it is "disrespectful [...] to be speaking for someone who has just died", it seems to me that, on the contrary, it is an important token of respect to take the wishes of the dead into account (as best one can make them out) when choosing how to memorialize them. Your advocacy of ignoring Hamilton's wishes is disrespectful; my advocacy of considering them is not.

You are speculating upon the wishes of the dead and projecting your own conclusions onto a dead person, a person who means a great deal to many people here. I told you this is not a place for an argument. Absolutely shameful that you attempted to start one anyway. Go away.