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That's certainly a more charitable interpretation of their comment than I gave it, perhaps I was unfair though I rather suspect the intent was closer to my reac

• neilv 2y ago
  Maybe an off-the-cuff idea, in curiosity and good-natured mischievousness, and then minutes later, while thinking it through, would realize, oh yeah, that could be bad, whew, sigh, and that's humbling. Then sometimes the thinking leads from there, maybe from a bad idea to a good idea, or maybe realizing a related thing in the world is also secretly bad, and can we address that.
• nativeit 2y ago
  Text-based communication, especially informal comment text, are obviously pretty terrible at accurately conveying tone and intent. I like to adhere to the “assume good faith” maxim whenever possible, although that’s increasingly difficult in this polarized age of “Roman salutes.” Anyhow, I personally read their comment as something of a tongue-in-cheek chaotic neutral sort of curiosity.
  • swores 2y ago
    > "I like to adhere to the “assume good faith” maxim whenever possible" That's generally my policy too, when I wrote the comment I felt confident that I wasn't missing a less mean-spirited interpretation that they may have meant instead, but it's possible my mood this evening clouded my judgement. If I was wrong, apologies to fsckboy