> Who made Anders Brevik the environment minister?

Whoa, you can't comment like that here. Even without that horrid bit, your comment is problematic for HN: we don't want overheated rants, and comments shouldn't go on about downvotes.

The kernel of a civil, substantive comment is detectable in what you posted. When commenting here, please develop that part and edit out all the rest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Just for the record, I commented about the downvotes before receiving any downvotes. Mainly because I knew that people have trouble understanding that outrage is a part of civilized discussion -- and that making villains out of animals and humans relies on the same logical fallacies.

The only bit in the policy that you linked to is "Avoid gratuitous negativity." Is that the bit that applied here?

> Is that the bit that applied here?

That and "please be civil". Naming the environment minister after the country's worst mass murderer is so uncivil that I'm surprised we have to have this conversation.

We're not interested in political rants on HN, so please refrain from practicing that genre on this site.

> I commented about the downvotes before receiving any downvotes

"Before you downvote, <rhetorical point here>" is just another variation of downvote-baiting, which the site guidelines ask you not to do. Going on about downvotes is in general a reliable marker of a bad comment. As the guidelines say, it does no good and makes boring reading.

Fair enough. I don't agree with any of the logic in the first part of your reply, but it's your website. The second point is right on the nose, though.

These wolves are not outsiders. They are native to Norway.

Brevik killed Norwegians, in opposition to immigration. He did not directly kill outsiders.

This is not a one-off event. The Norwegian government has done this before. From 2001, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/killing-wolves-in-norway/

> A Norwegian government team killed the fourth of nine wolves ordered felled in a hunt that has outraged conservationists and Swedish officials. ...

> Norway ordered the nine shot after complaints from local farmers of wolves killing livestock and pets, and wandering into farms and villages in a zone designated as wolf-free.

> Conservationists and Swedish officials have objected to the hunt, saying there are still so few wolves that killing nearly 10 percent of the stock is irresponsible.

A designated "wolf-free zone" is crazy, but the wolves should have read the signs.

You know, people get on the US for our dangerously-lax gun culture, but our concealed wolf crime rates are significantly below Northern Europe.

"And before you downvote, ask yourself: Senseless violence to stop outsiders who are just trying to survive: is it really any less bad when the outsiders are animals?"

Yes, it is.