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Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're all the same, which makes them tedious and off topic, and they lead to flamewars, which we don't want.

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What would an HN guidelines compliant post have looked like? Genuine question. This was an event that might have killed as many people as the holocaust, and someone said it was "well meaning". I thought I made a polite and non flamebaity response. Am I unable to disagree with that, or start a discussion about it? If I am, how would I do it?

You're misrepresenting the comment - they didn't call the event itself 'well-meaning', never said the policy itself went 'a little bit wrong'. Then you pile on with the "largest tragedy of the 21st century" bombast. This isn't polite disagreement over phrasing or substance and it's rude as fuck.

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