It has nothing to do with intent. It’s tone deaf to ask why someone would want to preserve memories, especially if it’s based on your one anecdote of yourself not wanting them.

It’s like asking why someone would want to spread ashes or preserve an old piece of rickety furniture a long lost relative built.

Reread the post, especially this sentence, and ask yourself if it was "respectful"

> It's all just a lot of waste motion over some dream that someday we'll find value in sitting and looking at this old stuff again.

Yes, but when you read it in context, it's clear that the author is referring to themself:

>It's why I stopped taking pictures and videos of things. I never watched them again. It's all just a lot of waste motion over some dream that someday we'll find value in sitting and looking at this old stuff again.

The author uses "I" over and over again, explaining that they don't see the point, so asking about a different perspective seems genuine to me, or at least there's a plausible interpretation that it is genuine.

From HN guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.