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Re:26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent ... by dang on Saturday February 10, 2018 @02:17PM (#16348971)
Please don't take HN into full blown ideological flamewar. The more generic such tangents get, the more unmoored they become from anything specific the thread is discussing, and the more of a black hole they turn into.

Your comment here is emblematic of exactly what HN discussions need not to do. That requires the strength to resist temptation.

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

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Re:26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent ... by weberc2 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:02AM (#16352916)
I'm taken aback that my comment was "emblematic" of bad behavior. I made my critique charitably ("progressives are well-intentioned..."), and perhaps it was more generic than it could have been, it's certainly not in the bottom half of HN's distribution. I'll try to make my points more substantial going forward.
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