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http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "In Comments: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless yo
by lotharbot 14y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"In Comments:
Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."
- Tloewald 14y agoI have in fact never seen a flame war on this topic. I've seen plenty of flame wars over religion, but not actual discussion of the way in which religions operate at a psychological level. Excuse my ignorance. (Yes, I made a quip, but I was in fact broadening the topic. I.e. the basic post is about a limited phenomenon, and there are much larger cases illustrating the same point.) But I am definitely not alone in making this observation: http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1540,1624 http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1540,1624