> For the record, I don't like being used in this manner to further your agenda. I consider it malicious behavior. How am I abusing you or being malicious? It

> For the record, I don't like being used in this manner to further your agenda. I consider it malicious behavior. How am I abusing you or being malicious? It certainly wasn't intended! I'm talking about you in the third person in the comment you quote me from, but then I was replying to someone else. I'm not misrepresenting what you said, or how I feel about it. That is all honest. I'm not sure what to make of you seeing malice there. We agree that people are well intentioned but that their data and inferences are wrong. I would describe myself as a hardcore skeptic, I don't accept data or information on trust. I actively distrust corporate/governmental information. From my perspective, when I hear the opinions on hn, many are simply parroting some consensus opinion that they have not verified. This is to say most are living their lives on the basis of unverified beliefs masquerading as knowledge. This is to say, ignorance.