:Pretty much exactly that. I would, more properly, say: "Sorry, mate, but people has the right to write about you. I understand this created problems, but freedom of speech has its downsides. I often think what I would do if it would happen to me, and I always end up thinking there is little I could complain about the existence of the article. The problem, in fact, is not with me who opined for the keep. The responsibility is on who vandalized the article. It is a problem of content, not of existence. If we debate at AfD, we debate for existence. If we have to debate on content, let's be bold or discuss on the article talk page. If I was the mate, therefore, I'd try to go for the jugular of who wrote libel on my BLP, probably, and ask loudly for better protection of such articles, but I could only accept the existence'' of my article. I can try to make people say the truth about me, I can't try to shut up them.