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Thank you for the downvote. Much easier try to silence an opinion you don't like than leave a meaningful response. Why bother downvoting if you don't like what
by notzuck 7y ago
Thank you for the downvote. Much easier try to silence an opinion you don't like than leave a meaningful response. Why bother downvoting if you don't like what I said? This isn't reddit... or high school.
I just watched two history professors debate this very topic here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmyecSXOla8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmyecSXOla8
A very interesting watch because unlike hit and run downvoters, I am interested in learning.
side note: I now don't know what I think - both arguments were very good.
- skavi 7y agoit's considered bad form to discuss votes. the link itself would have been enough
- humanrebar 7y agoMeh. I think it's bad form to downvote without comment outside of pettiness or trolling.
- on_and_off 7y agoAgreed. I wish that HN would force people to write a comment explaining why they are downvoting.
- dang 7y agoAlas, that would generate more petty bickering about downvotes. Heaps more.
- humanrebar 7y agoI didn't downvote, but "peace in our time" isn't the same as "let's buy a few years and then get some Nazis". It's also extreme Monday morning quarterbacking. And it's plausible that anything short of Churchillian intransigence would have lost that war. Even a "smarter" craftiness could have failed.
- DuskStar 7y agoThought experiment - if you're Chamberlain, and want to postpone the war with Germany for a few more years while you build an army - what exactly do you say in a speech? "We're currently too weak to fight, but we'll get there" is not the sort of thing that I would expect to result in postponing war.