Absolutely! I feel like I better understand your original comment as well, and I don't think you deserved to be piled on so aggressively. So many of our potentially thoughtful conversations are turning into circular firing squads these days.
Words do matter, but intentions matter more.
That's a very interesting perspective. I can see how that could happen and how it feels for those demeaned by the comparison. Thanks for the link (and actually just for being engaging in what feels like HN becoming an increasingly hostile frenzy of flagging and downvoting everything).