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Re:US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf] by dang on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:21PM (#36950740)
You made the statement in a personal way, so responding with a generic argument won't cut it here. Telling someone "you are sending clear signals that you are not in control of your own mind" is a personal attack—this couldn't be more obvious. Please stop doing that so we don't have to ban you, and please stop posting flamewar comments as well. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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

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Re:US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf] by scrum-treats on Thursday August 03, 2023 @07:38PM (#36993542)
It's not a personal attack. It's a statement of cause and effect. When a person is programmed to think and believe a certain way, to the point of operant conditioning, that pattern in the brain fires first. By design. That's the purpose.

In terms of the "flamewar" claim, (1) did you also warn the other person? (2) Just because the truth doesn't make people feel good doesn't make it less true. Stoking a flame can be a subjective experience depending on one's personal position about a topic.

> please stop posting flamewar comments as well

Okay. Noted. Will do.

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Re:US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf] by dang on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:04AM (#37009403)
I did warn the other commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935242. But in general, we need you to follow HN's rules regardless of what other people are doing.

(I don't mean just you personally, of course, but everyone here.)

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