Just stop. If you don't have a counter-argument that is not an ad-hominem attack, strawmanning someone's position or shallow namecalling, you don't have to par

Just stop. If you don't have a counter-argument that is not an ad-hominem attack, strawmanning someone's position or shallow namecalling, you don't have to participate. This is not the forum for that. Here is HN Guidelines for your reference. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In particular; > Be kind. Don't be snarky. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. Incidentally, this is a good example to the value superstructure I was talking about. It is not a passive culmination of individual preferences, it is an aspirational guidepost sitting outside of us as a reference point. It allows selecting what behavior belongs to what extent and what doesn't. It tells us we can do better and what that better looks like.