The other things in your comment that are problematic are its casual tossing of flamewar material and its tedious posturing against ideological enemies. Please edit such stuff out of your comments when posting to HN. It breaks the site guidelines and obscures any substance in what you're saying.
For example, you would had a fine comment about the limits of empathy if you had simply eliminated this dross.
To me, "flamewar material" sounds like "stuff many people would disagree with" [1] and "tedious posturing" sounds like, "Unfortunate realities I don't like discussing," so if you could quote [2] the specific part that breaks the rules it would help.
dang|10 years ago
For example, you would had a fine comment about the limits of empathy if you had simply eliminated this dross.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926249 and marked it off-topic.
puredemo|10 years ago
To me, "flamewar material" sounds like "stuff many people would disagree with" [1] and "tedious posturing" sounds like, "Unfortunate realities I don't like discussing," so if you could quote [2] the specific part that breaks the rules it would help.
[1] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
[2] http://paulgraham.com/okung.html