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Of course the other thing is that we're all saying "if he screwed up a gear change it's rider error and okay to take advantage of, but if it's a mechanical then he should have waited", closely followed by "having rewound the tape several times, I'm now certain Schleck didn't change gear" - without the benefit of a rewind button, how is Contador supposed to know what caused Schleck's problem. At the end of the day, he's going to have a few seconds to make a snap decision about whether it's appropriate to stick the boot in or not, at a critical point in the world's biggest road race.
Much as though I'm not convinced by his Puerta related explanations (any more than Schleck's £5,000 training plan), I'd find it hard to justify villifying the guy on the basis of his decision to go on without Schleck.