How many cars have you given the world?

I think it quite stifles discourse to require everyone to have done the exact same things as a person before commenting about a person. We don’t require you to kill a man before commenting about a murder. You don’t require someone to run for office before they are allowed to comment on a public official.

Good point, but that’s not what I did. I just responded in kind to someone using the absurd rhetoric that because Tesla’s cars supposedly can’t handle rain*, Elon is too incompetent to accomplish his goals re Mars. While we don’t [to quote you] “require everyone to have done the exact same things as a person before commenting about a person,” for certain arguments to carry any weight, the credibility of the person making them does, in fact, matter. If someone was criticizing Bjarne Stroustrup and how exceptions work in C++, but has never even written a single line of code in any systems language, it’d be completely reasonable to dismiss every single word out of that person’s mouth.

* Please note that I’ve driven a Tesla in rain just fine, but I’ll pretend the critique is legit and in good faith for the sake of the argument.

There are too many cars in this world.

Do you see a therapist about this? Genuine question.

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Even in a wretched, tedious flamewar like this one, this post stands out as seriously not ok.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Truthfully I’m just going to stop posting here. This place has become a disaster in terms of the general attitude of many commenters. The spirit of the site is to celebrate hacking, and this person is trashing some of the greatest hackers alive who are pushing the boundaries and sometimes succeeding sometimes failing. I did in fact want to know if they have been seeing mental health professionals about their attitude - it’s not an insult to ask a question, it’s a genuine curiosity of mine if these people who have this mindset have certain pathologies they are working through.