Arguably, BTC-e is actually demonstrating the virtues and pitfalls of fungibility and irreversibility: they are doing whatever they want with the money that was sent to their addresses because nobody can do a single thing about it.

If anything, this is about traceability. The reason BTC-e can do this in the first place is because transactions and the origin of money is traceable. If you want fungibility in the sense you are talking about (even though you call it "irreversibility" because you are very confused, BTC-e didn't reverse any transactions), then implement it into the core code by introducing total transactional anonymity. Until then, you yelling at clouds because people are using the properties of Bitcoin in a way you don't like is simply ridiculous.

Putting aside the whole perfect money theory stuff, they would have had both law enforcement and drug cartels coming after them for their money. This would have been against any sort of common sense. What the fuck were they supposed to do? I guess they should have looked up to the high priests of Bitcoin for spiritual guidance so you could lead them away from their cowardly ways.

If somebody stole your money and somebody else used the chance they had to stop the thief, would you say that's bad because he's not respecting the ten commandments of perfect money? No, you would thank him and go on your way. You failing to realise that's what's happening here speaks volumes about your incapacity to distinguish between what the technology is and your clusterfuck of ideals, dogmatic notions, and emotional thinking.

Normally I would have just moved on but the fact this is coming from a core dev is quite shocking, and perhaps even a little bit concerning. This really raises the question of whether you even understand what you are doing and talking about. I thought Bram Cohen's comment was a bit of a gratuitous jab, but he clearly may be onto something here.