I do understand that they're common and that they strike a nerve, so they're not flagged - but it makes for very poor discussion, it's just angry venting that d

I do understand that they're common and that they strike a nerve, so they're not flagged - but it makes for very poor discussion, it's just angry venting that doesn't satisfy "intellectual curiosity", so it's really not in the interest of the stated goals of the website to let these discussions derail so badly. (Of course, humans are humans, and HN users are just as much prone to group think as everyone else. I just think it's funny that HN users keep claiming that they're somehow above that.)