> He was a horrible, disgusting meat-eater! Possibly, if that's the consensus of current mores, but I didn't say that; I said that a racist and an anti-Semite

> He was a horrible, disgusting meat-eater! Possibly, if that's the consensus of current mores, but I didn't say that; I said that a racist and an anti-Semite is a horrible leader. > He deserved to die! No, I definitely didn't say that. In fact, lostlogin explicitly disclaimed this position (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556982): > This doesn’t justify what happened to him, but certainly helps explain it. (emphasis mine). There are plenty of horrible people out there, but, most (and possibly all) of the time, wishing death on them is equally horrible.