He's concerned that his views may become controversial in future. Someone with published centre-right views in Cambodia in 1965 would have felt fairly safe. Fifteen years later they would have been dead.

(Ah! I notice you've edited it. It's worth pointing out that 'Political Correctness' was originally a term to describe the 'correct' behaviour of people in totalitarian states.)

I respond to posts the same way I write code.

I write it first, then look for edge cases.

Perhaps I should add a new step, post after the edge cases have been considered.

> Perhaps I should add a new step, post after the edge cases have been considered

Or use the "delay" feature on your HN profile page: e.g. mine is set to 2, meaning after I post a comment, I have 2 minutes to edit, reconsider, proofread or delete before anyone sees it.

I guess we all have different edge cases to our worldviews!

"Treat all people as people."

Which also means taking into account that some people are, in fact, unfair assholes and that you may fail to recognize them in time.