Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Posting like this is basically arson, or criminal negligence. I'm sure you don't mean to cause harm, but this has been a problem for a long time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23299305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20135818

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16055379

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15695133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14540750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13859103

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995487

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995486

If you can't or won't fix this, we're going to have to ban you. Most accounts would be banned by now after a lot less than that. Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on?

Thanks for your work keeping the site sane, Dang. Apologies. I get overly emotional.

That's just being human. We don't hold it against you at all.

It's America's obsession with self righteous indignation. "How dare you not go along with the mob and put on your mask. What kind of horrible person are you?" Americans, of which I am one, have this mentality that if someone disagrees, they are a terrible, horrible person that must be crushed by your rightness.

Yep. Completely agree. There's very little middle ground anymore. It's just pure righteous indignation from all sides.

Trump bad, guns good, abortion good, q anon good...and on and on.

I personally blame the media, where most people get their information, for presenting things in an extremely one sided non-nuanced manner, no matter, what party or group you hail from.

It makes it impossible to empathize with the other side or see other ideas if it's presented already by the media as unquestionable ideas.

However, it's also on the population for being intellectually lazy and not validating or verifying what they see on the news media.