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This is hyperbolic bullshit. Keep it on Reddit.

• burgerbrain 15y ago
  It is my belief that governance is just another form of tyranny. Government is not conceptually philosophically different from gangs, and if you look at how the police operate in practice there are massive parallels (such as, but not limited to, their "look out for our own" attitude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH9k8L3oDa4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH9k8L3oDa4). "hyperbolic" My point is that the only difference is scale. The difference in scale in this case happens to be somewhat extreme, so perhaps that is why you think I'm being hyperbolic... I'm not. Furthermore, I've never regulated Reddit.
  • Locke1689 15y ago
    I will not descend into an extremist philosophical debate to decide the validity of a plainly factually wrong comment. I hope that other readers will follow suit and am frankly insulted that you think that the readers of Hacker News are stupid enough to buy into such a plainly ignorant comment. Edit: Burgerbrain is correct, this comment was far too mean spirited. I will not change my comment because I believe editing robs context and rewrites history. I however continue to support the feeling that I had when writing this post, which is that I feel extremist philosophical debates are both off-topic and bring down the overall level of discussion on HN.
    • burgerbrain 15y ago
      You have some way of choosing to not participate in a discussion... You should really knock it out with the namecalling however, because that is below HN. I am not the only person here expressing and backing up this general sentiment. If you don't want to discuss it like a reasonable adult, and don't want to read other people discuss it, then just move along. I don't have to take verbal abuse from you.