We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11187249 and marked it off-topic.

That's ridiculous. This is a very complicated issue, and the right answer (from our perspective) is not at all obvious to the average person. If you care so much, take the time to walk people through the details (the state of security, the nature of the system design, the reasons to expect the precedent to be dangerous, etc.) before you start to judge.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News, regardless of how wrong someone is. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.