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Its about as useful as: "Europeans won't sit down at restaurant with people with guns. No matter how trained they are." You know what would be actually useful?
by mgarfias 5y ago
Its about as useful as: "Europeans won't sit down at restaurant with people with guns. No matter how trained they are."
You know what would be actually useful? Learning about the topic. The parent here isn't doing that, just spewing thoughts that have been fed to him/her by the media.
- dang 5y agoOk, but responding to a bad comment with a worse one is driving the wrong way down a one-way street. If you know more than others, the thing to do is share some of what you know—in a substantive, respectful way—so that not only they but all of us can learn something. If you can't do that or don't want to, that's fine, but please don't react by posting low-quality ventings (e.g. name-calling or putdowns). That only makes the thread even worse. Two wrongs don't make a right, as most people's mothers have indicated. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=share%20know%20learn%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- mgarfias 5y agoYou know, I've been having this argument for close to 30 years. Trying to inform the uninformable hasn't ever worked. So, now I just point and laugh at them. At least afterwards I get. chuckle.
- dang 5y agoOk, but if you break the rules here and ignore our requests to stop, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to do that, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.