Many of the comments in this thread violate this guideline: > Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say.

Many of the comments in this thread violate this guideline: > Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. This is particularly difficult to avoid on these controversial topics, but we have to try because the quality of the discussion when we do this is way below what this site exists for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html