Would you please stop arguing like this on HN? It's hard enough for this place to touch on divisive topics without disintegrating. When you post in this nasty, acerbic way, you're weakening the already-fragile bonds that keep HN barely cohesive, and contributing it to it going down in flames.
(That's ironic for a post that mentions social contract.) We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, so please make sure not to.
A long time ago, pg (who created HN) wrote:
A comment in reply to another comment should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.
That's the standard we ask users here to follow, regardless of how wrong or provocative the other comment has been.
>you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen express their out of touch opinions.
Kettle meet pot.
I scolded that user as well of course, but you need to follow the rules regardless of who doesn't.
how am i virtue signalling on an anonymous forum? who am i signalling to? i don't even have anything identifying me on my profile? and googling this name brings up nothing. so umm maybe i actually mean what i say?
I'm not virtuous enough to push for higher taxes and more welfare? By shutting me down you'll have even more poor to celebrate! Isn't virtue signalling great?