Anyway, now that I'm actually awake and have had a chance to read through this post.
And with that, my meandering rant is at an end.
Didn't want to quote the whole thing, but just some general replies to stuff in it.
The first thing is, I can appreciate where you're coming from, in that, as you said, you can say multiple points of view and ways of looking at both this situation, the handball situation, and Suarez as a player in general. That's fair enough. I certainly understand that someone's views of all of those things can be impacted by their personal views, preferences, opinions, etc.
To reply to one of the larger topics within your post - that of the fact that other fouls and penalties "fit the action" better and that a penalty kick in result of a player blocking a sure goal, I can agree with that, but on the other hand, that's not Suarez' fault. Everyone is operating under the same rules of the game, and have the same choices and decisions. In fact though, another Uruguay player was trying to do exactly the same thing on that ball - but he missed and failed at doing so. His intent was exactly the same though. And, if other players aren't making that decision in that position, they're negatively impacting their team. If one feels that shouldn't be the case, then the argument should be that FIFA should change their rules, not that the player was wrong in operating under the rules.
I know I keep bringing up other situations, but I feel that the above paragraph can stand on its own without any examples, so if one doesn't like the examples, it can be taken as is. But, when I see players at the end of Basketball games chasing each other around, not having any mind for the ball itself, but just trying to whack each other for the purpose of stopping the clock, it just looks comically absurd. And, even aside from end-game "strategy," it's even involved in occasional game "strategy," such as in the infamous "Hack-a-Shaq." And, fouling someone who is bad at free-throw shooting so he didn't score his dunk or layup or whatever, and instead has to try for foul shots, if anything seems worse to me than blocking a goal and making someone try for a penalty kick, considering the higher rate of success for penalty kicks, and the fact that the player is out of the game after one red card, as opposed to Basketball players getting multiple fouls to "work with."
Aside from that, I just think my main issue is with people taking such offense to something like that, while ignoring so many other things that are done in matches. It isn't a "Well, why worry about this when so many other bad things are done!" or "Everyone's a hypocrite!" thing or anything, but more just honestly wondering why people are fine with so many other things, or ignore so many other things, or are unaware of so many other things, while taking such offense to something like a handball. I mean, if that's one's view of the game, that doing something like that is so wrong, certainly I can't tell anyone else how to think. But, I would just think that setting the bar at something like that would be to where so many other things would be an issue, and many other things would be significantly worse, and wondering why those other things aren't really made a big deal out of.
