It's most interesting which HN comment threads garner high quality analytical comments and which descend into chaotic bickering and hair-splitting. This is a p

It's most interesting which HN comment threads garner high quality analytical comments and which descend into chaotic bickering and hair-splitting. This is a particularly poor one. Someone mentioned "poisoning the well" earlier. I sense a lot of that and like you I am struck by the prevalence of whataboutism and bad faith questions in this thread, particularly low quality leading questions relentlessly sealioning in the credulous tone of a five year old child ; "But mummy, why is it bad to stab someone in the face with a garden fork?"