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Do you know the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"?
by nec4b 1y ago
Do you know the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"?
- spacemadness 1y agoDo you know how condescending and useless that statement is?
- nec4b 1y agoIt is only useless on mindless elitist mind. Why would it be condescending to remind people actions have consequences?
- spacemadness 1y agoYeah ok. It seems you have nothing to add except some lame nonsensical jabs at “elitists.”
- nec4b 1y agoYou are free to expand on why you think it's condescending, since you brought it up.
- const_cast 1y ago> Why would it be condescending to remind people actions have consequences? I think yes, explicitly. I think every person on planet Earth is aware actions have consequences. That's never been a debate. The debate is always what consequences have come from what actions, and to what extent.
- trealira 1y ago[flagged]
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- trealira 1y agoThat's not what they were saying 4 years ago, but okay lol, I see you can't say anything else.
- anonfordays 1y agoThat's what they were saying 4 years ago, but okay lol, I see you can't say anything else.
- nec4b 1y ago[flagged]
- trealira 1y agoYeah, and my grandmother lived under Nazi Germany, although she was a supporter and not put in any camps. Call me an elitist all you want, I don't care. I'd be fine with banning political discussion altogether on this site, but until that happens, I'm not going to self-censor as others confidently let their opinions be known.
- tomhow 1y agoBanning political discussion was briefly tried here, nearly a decade ago. It failed, but it did reveal (or, remind) that there's no way to get a community like HN to agree on where the line should be between "politics" and "everything else", and that indeed that very question is itself political. So, there will be no more attempts to ban political discussion here. There will just be continued emphasis on the guideline that only stories that contain "significant new information" are considered worthy of discussion on HN. But we do ask you and everyone to heed the guidelines, particularly these ones: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tomhow 1y agoPlease don't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. In discussions like this we need everyone to pay extra attention to the guidelines, particularly these ones: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html