Completely agree, jonasvp. If it can motivate intellectual debate, then that's a good thing. Unfortunately on HN, it's motivated the book-burning brigade into

Completely agree, jonasvp. If it can motivate intellectual debate, then that's a good thing. Unfortunately on HN, it's motivated the book-burning brigade into a frenzy of condemnation. Why don't people discuss the ideas presented instead of crying about how the ideas should never have made it to a TEDx video?