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A comment on PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal". Parent comment

Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by potatolicious on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @02:05PM (#1984141)
> "Are you still waiting for someone to put some food in your mouth too?"

This is not the level of discourse I've come to expect from HN. Please, lay off the ad hominem snarkiness.

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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by mikeklaas on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:22PM (#1985149)
"Ad hominem" doesn't mean "arguments that are phrased meanly/snarkily"
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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by potatolicious on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:52PM (#1985276)
You're right, it isn't quite ad hominem - it is however uncivil, mean-spirited, and a personal put-down, all of which IMHO does not belong on HN.

That's the problem with this WikiLeaks thing, even highly educated, supposedly level-headed people start frothing at the mouth and lose any semblance of rational discourse. There are few moderates and way too many extremists - on both sides.

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