Given the other poster's unnecessarily hostile and repeated personal attacks and use of profanity (e.g. "You're a fucking fanatic.", "Grow up and learn that [.

Given the other poster's unnecessarily hostile and repeated personal attacks and use of profanity (e.g. "You're a fucking fanatic.", "Grow up and learn that [...].", etc. from just that last post)., I honestly suspect that he is fighting some sort of personal demon. As I said, I'm getting downvoted here because, in general, the postership skews towards younger, sheltered types with relatively little life experience. Then there are some slightly older folks who have gotten some experience under their belts but who are convinced that if they could just treat everyone else and society at large worse, they could scramble up over them and declare themselves kings of the hill. The end result is that HN sometimes ends up being a venue for people who have grown up in privileged situations in developed countries, benefiting enormously from social safety nets whether they're conscious of that or not, to gnash their teeth over not being able to tear apart those same social safety nets. They don't seem to grasp that, if they had grown up in the sort of place that they want so badly to create, they themselves would likely be stuck on the bottom couple of rungs on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, preoccupied with just earning enough money to feed, clothe, and house themselves. They aren't even eager to go and live in places like their dream kingdoms, because those other swashbucklingly entrepreneurial places aren't as nice to live or raise families in as the evil socialistic, freedom-destroying places that they currently live.