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> Does the story generate genuine debate in the comments about the core idea in the story? Well, I would have liked to see some debate about the nature of poli
by blahedo 16y ago
> Does the story generate genuine debate in the comments about the core idea in the story?
Well, I would have liked to see some debate about the nature of police states and what sorts of police actions make a population as a whole more rather than less likely to go to the police with their problems...
...but everyone was too busy arguing over whether the story belongs on HN to get that far. Um, my bad, I guess.
- tptacek 16y agoWhat debate? Seriously: you want a debate about something that virtually everyone on HN agrees about. There are right-leaning and left-leaning people alike on HN, but even Daniel Markham opposes the police state. Are we debating just to hear ourselves talk? The question of whether stories like this belong on HN or not is more interesting than the other questions being discussed here, because at least this question has opposing interests and can lead to a conclusion of some sort.