"""Because we appear to be unable to move past the most immediately obvious point, we can't fit any other thoughts in our head, like, "maybe there is a real soc

"""Because we appear to be unable to move past the most immediately obvious point, we can't fit any other thoughts in our head, like, "maybe there is a real societal problem that needs to be addressed here"""" You do understand that sometimes there just is not "a real societal problem"to be addressed. """It's boring to have a bunch of people with more or less the exact same life experiences competing to agree with each other.""" There is a problem of boredom with people "agreeing"? Really? We should disagree just for the fun of it? How about people agreeing on evolution? Also, the "more or less exact same life experiences" part was totally an assumption, and I assume a wrong one. For one, I'm 8,000 miles away from the US and its life experiences, and I know tons of other on HN that also are. """When it's not boring, it's exasperating, such as when the thread competes to build a case that all of law enforcement is a conspiracy to find more effective ways to predict who we're going to vote for --- or creepy, such as when people more or less suggest that child pornography isn't a real problem.""" Well, in a world where tens of thousands of children die of hunger every single day, c/p is definitely not a real problem. The production of it could be, or it could be not, depending if real children are used. Even so, it's still is as marginal as they come, but it gets played in the media and such as if it is extremely prevalent, in order to justify bad laws government's need for other purposes.