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When it comes to life-or-death questions, we should make informed decisions. "Just trust me" fundamentally lacks any valuable information that furthers the disc
by Darthy 9y ago
When it comes to life-or-death questions, we should make informed decisions. "Just trust me" fundamentally lacks any valuable information that furthers the discussion. In addition, "just trust me" also endangers less clear thinking people to sway based on emotion instead of well-founded cold hard facts.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoThe reality of Defense/Intelligence is that you do have to just trust some of us.
- notburnt 9y agoThe reality of being a citizen of the US is that the intel community doesn't make it easy to do so.
- vkou 9y agoThe same defense/intelligence that has lied its pants off for how long... Gosh, I don't know when to begin. You are working on a morally bankrupt program for a morally deficient organization, large parts of which have zero concern for human life. And you tell us to blindly trust you?
- Nimitz14 9y agoSure you have enough air sitting on a horse so high?
- dang 9y agoThis breaks the site guidelines. Please post civilly and substantively, regardless of how wrong or ignorant another comment may be. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: actually your recent comments have been so egregious that I've banned the account. That's a pity, because the comments you posted that were civil and substantive have been quite good. But we can't allow people to treat fellow community members like this. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com. We're happy to unban people who commit to following the rules in the future.
- dang 9y agoPersonal attacks aren't ok on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this. In case it helps, it's not a question of supporting views or actions you disagree with, but of supporting the community we're all participating in here, so it doesn't slide into war. Social pressures in that direction seem to be stepping up these days, so if we're to have much hope of preserving HN, we need a corresponding uptick in efforts to take care of it.
- vkou 9y agoThank you for the reminder. I was emotional, and I went way over the line. I am sorry for the trouble, and for bringing down the quality of discourse.