It breaks the site guidelines to take threads on generic ideological tangents like this. It makes discussions less interesting, so we ask people not to do it.

Similarly, we ask people not to use HN primarily for politics or ideology. A certain amount is inevitable; more than a certain amount destroys the site for the things HN exists for.

So would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when commenting here?