Believe it or not, there's a certain amount of dissent within this large collective of individual human beings.
You've touched on a point the group is divided on: How much heroism (however defined) should the group engage in? Is it nobler to lulz, or to take up LOIC against a sea of shitheads, and in DDoSing, convince CNN to notice?
That, or some people are sociopaths, some people are zealots, and deciding who's who says more about you than about them.