> But for some reasons professional programmers are judged under a much higher moral standard. I believe the key word there is "professional" -- one of the cha

> But for some reasons professional programmers are judged under a much higher moral standard. I believe the key word there is "professional" -- one of the challenges of a venue like HN is the professional engineers and the less-professional ones interact from worldviews and use cases so distinct that they may as well be separate universes. In other spaces, we wouldn't let a top doctor have to explain very basic concepts about the commercial practice of medicine to an amateur "skeptic" and yet so many discussions on HN degenerate along just these lines. On the other hand, it's that very same inclusiveness and generally high discourse in spite of that wide expanse which make HN such a special community, so I'm not sure what to conclude besides this unfortunate characteristic being a necessary "feature, not a bug" of the community. There's no way around it that wouldn't make the community a lesser place, I think.