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Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

Also, personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't do that either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Help me understand, which ideologies are allowed to be discussed? The person I replied to didn't understand why people don't vote for certain policies. I tried to help them understand the position of people who don't agree with increasing aggression.

It's not a question of one ideology rather than another. They're all equally bad when it comes to generic internet discussion, and especially flamewar. Such discussions have all been had a million times, they're all predictable and therefore tedious and therefore off topic here. HN is for curiosity. There's zero curiosity in "taxation is theft" (or "property is theft") flamewars. Ditto for "state aggression" here, which is a generic ideological tangent even from a subthread that was already one in its own right.

If you want to understand further, I've written a lot about this in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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