I took it too far in that respect, and since I can't do a faithful edit on HN to correct that (without erasing the evidence of me being wrong), it doesn't mean

I took it too far in that respect, and since I can't do a faithful edit on HN to correct that (without erasing the evidence of me being wrong), it doesn't mean the rest of the post is wrong. The EU isn't the paradise the parent poster thinks it is.