It's possible that some forms of programming education--I don't say all forms--lead people to simply disregard issues of quality applicable to other domains. "If it compiles, it's okay" is not a sufficient basis for saying that an argument about public policy, for example, is valid. I think I see quite a few examples of invalid reasoning about value-laden factual matters with policy implications in online discussion, perhaps precisely because people with programming educations were early adopters of online technology, and sometimes set the tone for how online discussion is conducted.

Perhaps there are examples both of your concern and of mine here on HN.