It should be the most obvious thing in the world that whether you take a fundamentally welcoming and positive mindset towards people vs. a negative and unwelcoming mindset, the effects of either will propagate and magnify themselves over time.

But when you're insecure the feelings you get from the latter are more comforting in the short term.

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s5300 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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ajross 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The principle is better stated as "don't be an asshole".

HN's insistence on decorum is just really poorly suited to the moment.

	▲	darth_avocado 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can assure you the decorum isn’t exactly being maintained and downvotes don’t exactly do much when there’s a consensus that a certain thing is okay to do.