Great, there are things you can’t be neutral about. I get that. My own spouse’s day to day quality of life, access to medical care and even literal freedom are

Great, there are things you can’t be neutral about. I get that. My own spouse’s day to day quality of life, access to medical care and even literal freedom are debated every year at the state and federal levels and every year things can change on a dime. I’m very familiar with there being personal issues that are extremely important and that one can not be neutral on. I am not neutral on these issues, and were we having a discussion about those issues, there would be no neutrality from me on them precisely because I can not be neutral on them. But that does not mean that I turn every discussion on HN, even discussions related to political things into a discussion about my specific personal issues. The fact that you and I aren’t hashing those issues out right now is not a tactic endorsement of the status quo. And it would be ridiculous for me to use my power as a software developer and maintainer to start inserting messages about my stances on these issue into the software I maintain and distribute, and it would be especially ridiculous for me to start distributing malware along a trusted supply chain because of those issues. Asking that software be a neutral ground with respect to certain political topics or activities is not an endorsement of the status quo or a dismissal of your completely valid concerns. It’s a recognition that there is a time and a palace to discuss, debate or even fight about very important issues. But not every time and every place is the appropriate one. Or put another way, and taking out of the software realm, if neutrality is inherently political and some political things are too important to leave any place neutral, then what issues do you believe we should start militarizing the moon for? Is the human cost of this war sufficient for the US to start deploying military assets to the moon? Or even just militarizing (more so than it is for spy satellites) earth orbit and deploying kinetic weapons into space? Perhaps the US and EU should unilaterally take full control of the ISS and imprison the Russian cosmonauts onboard? Or is that plainly ridiculous and is there value in attempting to preserve as much neutrality within space as possible given the current situation? Perhaps it is worthy to not escalate political boundaries in certain areas even when the political item in question is of extreme importance.