Life is not a high-school debate club. An _ad hominem_ accusation only really works if the attack is unrelated. I don't know about ESR, but DHH has acted in wa

Life is not a high-school debate club. An _ad hominem_ accusation only really works if the attack is unrelated. I don't know about ESR, but DHH has acted in ways that make it difficult to believe he is making a good-faith, unbiased argument on CoCs, which means I'm not obligated to reciprocate and treat his argument fairly. (DHH oversaw a list at 37Signals making racist fun of customer names, and overruled his employees who complained, eventually leading to a mass walkout.) To put it in Bayesian terms, the prior that he's making a bad faith argument is higher than any random person, and should be treated as such.