Please don't do ideological flamewar on HN. It's tedious and breaks the site guidelines.
Also, personal attacks, which you crossed into, are not allowed on HN and will get you banned here. Please don't do that again.
Also, personal attacks, which you crossed into, are not allowed on HN and will get you banned here. Please don't do that again.
I think the kind of rationalizing you're doing is not much different from the rationalizing people on the other side of the political spectrum do. I had similar discussions with people from the other side and they argued similarly to you. I think your quote is broadly applicable to both sides as well.