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Re:Legalize It All by dang on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:09PM (#11331455)
> Gotta love the HN crowd.

Please don't do this here. The "crowd" includes you, and such generalizations are mostly bias.

Re:Legalize It All by miguelrochefort on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:31PM (#11331686)
Am I wrong to assume that most people here:

- Want to legalize drugs.

- Want to ban guns.

- Want a right to privacy.

Re:Legalize It All by dang on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:44PM (#11331821)
You may be right, but yes you're wrong to assume it. People assume all kinds of things about HN, and there's a huge amount of bias involved.

But my point is that it's in bad taste to diss a community you belong to, while participating in it, as a rhetorical status move. People do this all the time, but we've noticed that it's reliably a marker of low-quality comments, so we're going to start asking them not to.

Re:Legalize It All by soylentcola on Monday March 21, 2016 @05:05PM (#11332040)
Sample size of one (and incredibly oversimplified for such complex topics) but...

- I don't think ingesting chemicals or compounds should be illegal but there's probably a benefit to some level of restriction on their sale and use

- I don't think guns should be made illegal but there's probably a benefit to some level of restriction on their sale and use

- I think there should be certain guarantees in terms of privacy but there's probably an argument to be made that these rights can be restricted in some cases for some individuals (ie: in the course of prosecuting a crime)

Either way, it's hard to make blanket statements about complex issues so you get appropriately wishy-washy responses.

Re:Legalize It All by sbov on Monday March 21, 2016 @05:19PM (#11332160)
Why does it even matter? Why people believe what they believe is more nuanced than "freedom". Freedom is certainly is a factor but not the only.

Stereotyping everyone in a community is easy but ultimately lazy and somewhat pointless. Unless you're running for office.

Re:Legalize It All by jjuhl on Monday March 21, 2016 @05:01PM (#11331999)
Sounds good to me. But go ahead and flame/downvote/hate on my oppinion as a member of the HN community. After all I'm just one person with an opinion.