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Actually, I feel my comment is about as even handed as I could muster. Aspergers or not, he hurt a lot of people.
by VonGuard 9y ago
Actually, I feel my comment is about as even handed as I could muster. Aspergers or not, he hurt a lot of people.
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoAnd he's dead. What more do you want? We're all human beings. Can't you put it aside for two seconds?
- eganist 9y agoSerious question: what's the public benefit afforded by your comment?
- FFShhn 9y agowhats the public benefit from lying about a dead guy?
- arbitrage 9y agoWhat's the public benefit of hanging around on hacker news and chatting about things in general? Why would this be any different?
- eganist 9y agoHackernews discussion is intended to be productively informative. Knowingly putting someone down on a public forum does not make anyone better for it except maybe to educate the person making the mistake and others performing in an equal manner. Considering what Adrian was dealing with, any others like him might not even benefit from reading such things; this delivery method is more likely to fail than to succeed. It's fine to constructively criticize. But it's inherently impossible to do that with someone who's died because they're dead. And with disorders which risk social impairment, public shaming isn't the solution either; it just drives people who don't understand how to address their challenges further and further into a hole. I figure your question was intended as both maieutic and rhetorical, but please take into account what I'm sharing with you here. People are expected in some capacity to grow on hackernews. This comment contributed no growth value to anyone.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoSometimes comments should be kept to ourselves, for another day.