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Comment by paganel | Hacker News Reader

They deserve what they voted for. Have almost no direct stake in this, I'm just tired of this mantra of "showing respect for what people chose". It's not wrong telling someone that they made a bad decision, no matter if you offend said person by doing so. I personally wish my friends would be the same towards me, i.e. tell me whenever they think I made bad decisions.

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I did use the phrase "objectively worse". I see no substantiation for that yet. Also, this depends a lot on what they were looking for when they voted. I can easily say one of these: I do/don't like the outcome. However, I find it difficult to say: "they collectively chose incorrectly".

I do, however, agree that in general a population deserves whatever it is that they voted for.

> However, I find it difficult to say: "they collectively chose incorrectly".

That might just because you are a tolerant, reasonable person.

If you were a bit more arrogant and rude like some others at this site it would be much easier for you.

Source: Back when I was an even more intolerant, stupid and annoying guy I had no problems flaming whole religions or nations.

Hey, it sounds like you're wiser than you used to be, now that you're older! The rest of these posts are so arrogant, it's sad.

>They deserve what they voted for.

That's always the case in democracy. But assuming that what they'll get will be negative (as the above insinuates) is akin to taking for granted what you should prove.

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