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Comment by ilaksh | Hacker News Reader

Would be interested to hear from people who are burying my comment if they have any kind of explanation for why they are doing it, such as counterpoints to my statements. In case there is some insight that I might gain from them, since apparently there is a strong disagreement.

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If it is not patently obvious to you that broad ramblings about how "human lives have value", "lethal force is not an acceptable way to resolve conflict", "James Bond fantasy" to "primitive Social Darwinism" (and on and on) have next to no relevance to a discussion about Cloudflare's Keyless SSL implementation, of all things, then I don't know how anybody could ever get through to you to help you understand.

GP comment is too generalized to be constructive. That is especially so in this discussion of a specific network security platform, which presumably has specific faults that may be discussed instead of generalities like "belief systems" and "human lives".

You're right, I'm sure none of my general concerns about completely false belief systems and human lives are worth being viewed by any readers in this thread. My comment also may be a little bit difficult to contextualize or disconcerting for readers. Best to keep downvoting it so that it disappears.

Passive-aggressiveness is not an effective persuasion technique.

Almost every sentence of your comment contains non-obvious yet unsupported conclusions. I don't think a HN comment is the appropriate venue for your thinking; maybe a 20-page paper would be better.

The people thinking about this topic are my audience. That they don't want to hear it or bother trying to understand it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be available for them to view.

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