Re:Comment Flagging on HN as of Late
by DoreenMichele on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:10PM
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There's a pandemic on. The entire world has cabin fever and is cranky as all hell.
This is not a good time to make sweeping policy changes in reaction to people being cranky and mildly ill-behaved in their voting patterns.
Trying to make systemic changes to address this is how the world becomes more draconian. It doesn't become more civilized when you double down on "All y'all assholes better behave, damn it."
During crisis times in my life, when the kids were spazzing, my answer was usually "Go to bed and get some sleep. You're tired and cranky and we can discuss this tomorrow after you've slept."
Being more hard-line controlling instead of kind and compassionate and wise is the usual answer in situations like this. It's also the wrong answer and one of the reasons we've inherited so much crap from the past.
This is not a good time to make sweeping policy changes in reaction to people being cranky and mildly ill-behaved in their voting patterns.
Trying to make systemic changes to address this is how the world becomes more draconian. It doesn't become more civilized when you double down on "All y'all assholes better behave, damn it."
During crisis times in my life, when the kids were spazzing, my answer was usually "Go to bed and get some sleep. You're tired and cranky and we can discuss this tomorrow after you've slept."
Being more hard-line controlling instead of kind and compassionate and wise is the usual answer in situations like this. It's also the wrong answer and one of the reasons we've inherited so much crap from the past.