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I've banned this account. Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, regardless of naive, ignorant, or arrogant someone is or you feel they are.

You may not owe the native, the ignorant, or the arrogant better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This feels like a personal attack on the author. I see this as an opinion and everyone is entitled to theirs.

In fact, author makes good points like the consensus building via runes/fortune tellers.

Can you provide examples of ignorance, arrogance?

“I thought everybody was dumb but it turns out they saw the same things in weird ways!”

Is wrong twice (ignorance), while still asserting superiority (arrogance).

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but said opinions can still be ignorant and arrogant.

It was going off-guidelines for them to say the author should be embarrassed but not for calling out the character of the essay itself. It’s genuinely very insensitive, uninformed, and misguided.

    “I thought everybody was dumb but it turns out they saw the same things in weird ways!”

I see superiority but ignorance? If anything, author is admitting ignorance here. Re-reading some parts and looking at other quotes, they're definitely coming across as arrogant.

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but said opinions can still be ignorant and arrogant.

I agree, my issue was that parent comment felt like an Ad hominem attack. Looking at rest of the discussion, I can see how a lot of the essay is insensitive. And it's a little bit of self promotion as well (author submitting their own article).

I still learned at least one thing that changed my world view slightly, so I wanted to argue against such a dismissal. Could be my situation, I'm wrestling with some of the religious beliefs with my family. If nothing, seeing utility of existing customs is an improvement over dismissing them outright as useless or uninformed.

> If nothing, seeing utility of existing customs is an improvement over dismissing them outright as useless or uninformed.

Indeed. A lesson most learn before leaving high school in one form or another.

However the original post doesn’t even get that far: they commit the sane error repeatedly later.

The authors screed is about their personal position & thought process. Any criticism on it is fundamentally of the author.

So treating that like an objection is disingenuous at best.

Perhaps I was a little harsh with that last line, but I stand by the sentiment.

Oh no, author is re-examining his beliefs, what a monster.

Except that entirely the point: he isn't. He had an epiphany about his worldview that the past was full of morons, but still insists on the superiority of his secular western worldview interpretation of spiritual practices.

Yup. He learned nothing, and seems intent of displaying that to the world.

Exactly why I said it’s embarrassing for him.

is this a poorly designed bot? this response is incredibly generic, there's not even a passing reference to the content

Are you a poorly designed bot? I’m referring directly to the abysmally poor quality content in the linked post.

The fact that it got a single upvote is damning. It’s absolute purile junk that sounds like it was written by a deluded high schooler.

Engagement bait is a thing, and it seems to be working.

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