I don't mean to exclude you from such discussions! But it's important not to have accounts that are used only for that. The value of HN is intellectual curiosity. Every account should clearly be using the site for that purpose, and some purposes—like political battle, or promotional marketing—go against it.

The other thing is just that it's necessary to follow the guidelines even more scrupulously as a topic becomes more divisive. Things like "Assume good faith" are our lines of defense against the forum destroying itself.