HN is quite open intellectually and it's probably the only large online community I know where unpopular opinions will mostly not be buried in downvotes on sigh

HN is quite open intellectually and it's probably the only large online community I know where unpopular opinions will mostly not be buried in downvotes on sight, at least as long as they're well argued. I value that dearly. That being said it's also rather obvious that all these years later it's still more "startup news" than "hacker news", I find that there's rather strong USA-style libertarian dogma expressing itself in many discussions and shortcuts like "regulations = bad" that are meant to be self-evident and therefore not argued are annoyingly common. It's not the fact that I disagree with the point of view that annoys me, it's the somewhat condescending tone and lack of argumentation that accompanies it that's rather frustrating. Interestingly that whole cryptocurrency epic we're witnessing is quite educative from that point of view, it makes the dogmatic "government = bad" position rather precarious and forces a more nuanced approach from either side.