I can't stand this tendency among software engineers to think that their life is made worse by contact with the judgements of others and that this kind of thing

I can't stand this tendency among software engineers to think that their life is made worse by contact with the judgements of others and that this kind of thing muddies the purity of some kind of monastic, apolitical life of software engineering. Everything is political and largely subjective and it's off-putting to me to see people who think they have a duty to avoid contact with this crucial part of life. Most professions, hell most circumstances in life involve judgements. You can have disagreements as to how those judgements are handled, or find the nature of how conflict is handled to be overly contentious or disconnected from seeking resolution or for it to be fought over low stakes, and that's fine I don't disagree with any of that. But judgements are important, politics are important, and frankly I find it disgusting that places like hacker news foster this idea that our profession needs to be disconnected from these things.