I'm not sure why parent is getting downvoted. What's wrong about having the opinion that mandates should be "carefully scrutinized and evaluated before being wi

I'm not sure why parent is getting downvoted. What's wrong about having the opinion that mandates should be "carefully scrutinized and evaluated before being widely enforced"? You do not have to hold that view. You are free to criticize it. But downvoting seems counterproductive to any reasonable discussion. As one HN'er put it: > The downvote button is not a disagree button. If you disagree with something, add your own comment. That's the point of a discussion board. Downvotes are for comments which are not worthy of a response because they are not honest attempts at discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998406