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I see this article is flagged. Really? Can't we even discuss this issue like adults?

• dang 6y ago
  Unfortunately the answer isn't necessarily yes. In this case, though, I think people may be reacting more to the fact that this topic has had dozens of submissions and at least a dozen major discussions in the last year.
• SquareWheel 6y ago
  Outside of a few trolly throwaways, the thread seemed reasonable enough last night. After being unflagged though, it's devolved even further into culture war flaming. It seems to me HN is just not a community suited to discussing topics that are sensitive to some, but not others. We collectively are not very good at putting ourselves in other's shoes. That's something necessary to understanding the context behind decisions like these - or to at least frame them for discussion. Sadly this thread has become just one more battleground for a war with no winners. Hopefully the temperature will lower in time, and productive discussion will become possible again. But we're not there yet, and I suspect the early flaggers recognized that.