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Pretty sure it was rhetorical and not soliciting you for feedback. Telling a person that their genuine, curious questions are stupid is a great way to continue propping up the perception that our community is full of pedantic jerks.

Perhaps so, but many other answers premise with "not stupid," and were not similarly ostracized. I suppose some questions, rhetorical or otherwise, can only be answered one way, regardless of the truth.

Interesting how everyone ignored the point you made about the homelessness in SF.

Unfortunately we can't all be as smart and brilliant as you clearly are.

Hi, welcome to the English-speaking world! Sometimes we say things in a self-deprecating way as a sort of social lubricant. Those times are NOT an invitation to insult somebody.

Plus, the way you said it makes the rest of us think you prefer the "brutal" part of "brutal honesty" over the "honesty" part... You are welcome to interact with other humans that way, but you may find them to be less receptive to your ideas.

In other words, "manners are free."

This comment was dead so I vouched it.