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Fancifully entertaining someone's death is definitely over the line in HN comments. Please don't post like that.

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

Edit: I'm surprised at how many people are eager to go there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570385

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570266

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570205

That is not what HN is for, so please don't.

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Apologies if my comment sounded like wishing for someone's death. I promise that was not my intent.

I'm aghast at the magnitude of his disastrous actions and wondering how could someone cope with the situation he put himself in, from a psychological point of view.

I 100% believe you. But just imagine if you were reading comments like those about yourself, and imagine there were a ton of them. We don't want HN to be a generator for that kind of thing. We all tend to underestimate the impact of our comments by a good 10x.

Noted. And I agree with you 100%.

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