dang, I appreciate your efforts to maintain civility and I sincerely apologize if my tone came across as disrespectful towards any member of the HN community. I

dang, I appreciate your efforts to maintain civility and I sincerely apologize if my tone came across as disrespectful towards any member of the HN community. I also appreciate you mentioning your experience with past trauma. Looking back on this comment, I agree that I could have worded this more respectfully. I will strive to do so better moving forward. I would hope that HN is a space where you can call out illogical ideas, which is what I was trying to do. I reacted emotionally because I felt like I was being trolled, which is extremely common for anyone who exposes themselves by speaking about trauma. I can see now that the intent may not have been to troll me. However, I do feel like I’m being singled out a bit unfairly here. Again, not excusing the tone of my own comment, but I’ve received a few replies that feel at least as aggressive as my own. There’s one in particular referring to the “stench” of my comment that felt a bit harsh. All I would ask is for the same standards of civility to be applied to all members. If you see that comment and legitimately believe that mine was noticeably more over the line, please let me know.