When discussing controversial topics, the bar for civility and substantiveness is higher, not lower, otherwise these threads fall apart much too quickly. Please

When discussing controversial topics, the bar for civility and substantiveness is higher, not lower, otherwise these threads fall apart much too quickly. Please leave out things like "jesus christ some of you are pathetic". We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176426.