The GP shouldn't have included that flamebait, but please don't respond to flamebait by bursting entirely into flames. That's going the wrong way down a one-way street, since we're trying for exactly the opposite here.

Of course it's a highly emotional topic and justly so, but one of our intentions here is that we all work on self-regulation around this kind of thing (e.g. processing strong reactions internally before rushing to comments) - not really for ethical reasons, but just because it's the only way to avoid the failure-mode end states of internet forums.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html