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Nom nom nom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28400591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28400591 I don't think you generally need much reasoning to arg

Nom nom nom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28400591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28400591 I don't think you generally need much reasoning to argue that people should obey laws and that laws should be enforced. The only surface area I see for disagreement here at all, much less downvoting, is whether one thinks a legally mandated quarantine is a good law at all. My second comment even got flagged for stating that a single person evading a legally-mandated COVID quarantine could do an exponential amount of damage. If that's not sufficient proof, like I said, I can provide more. I actually abandoned another account here because the downvotes and rate limiting of my account got too annoying to deal with. I can't prove for certain that many of them were downvoted for politically-motivated reasons, but there are many for which I can't see any other likely reason. Edit: Here's a great one as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28335425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28335425 Here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28332616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28332616 Etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28315319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28315319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314059

tinco 4y ago
I think you got brigaded by the liberty police on that one. But that's deep in a comment tree with a bunch of low effort single line comments. I disregard votes on those anyway because they rarely get more than one upvote. Second one I agree with you, people are downvoting you because it's conflicting with their beliefs, and since you're not contributing anything particularly insightful you don't get any upvotes to balance that. Also it's such a small thread I don't think you got many downvotes at all. Third one, I think you're just wrong. You've got an understanding of the word coercion that's not in line with what the majority believes that word entails. That said, in all three cases I agree with you, but I also don't think your comments are valuable enough to warrant a positive comment score.

tinco 4y ago

I think you got brigaded by the liberty police on that one. But that's deep in a comment tree with a bunch of low effort single line comments. I disregard votes on those anyway because they rarely get more than one upvote. Second one I agree with you, people are downvoting you because it's conflicting with their beliefs, and since you're not contributing anything particularly insightful you don't get any upvotes to balance that. Also it's such a small thread I don't think you got many downvotes at all. Third one, I think you're just wrong. You've got an understanding of the word coercion that's not in line with what the majority believes that word entails. That said, in all three cases I agree with you, but I also don't think your comments are valuable enough to warrant a positive comment score.