It also boggles the mind why some think that this sort of interaction is the kind that brings others over to one's “side”. But in any case this kind of comment doesn't belong on Hacker News, so could you please post civilly and substantively instead?

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

This is an unhelpful comment. Rather than attacking chrisfosterelli you could explain your point of view.

Probably because they also see 10,000 years of governments and citizens generally muddling along okay, most of the time?

The fact that you immediately jumped to personal attacks demonstrates that you don't have a valid argument.