You said they were "abnormal" and "trolls" but you dressed it up in the sort of snooty language that HN expects you to dress it up in.

Civil violence is the backstop of literally every societal system. While it would be better if the systems work, civil violence is what happens if they don't and tends to increase until they do.

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tptacek 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Our premises are too far apart for it to be productive to discuss this.

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asadotzler 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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	▲	tptacek 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm walking away because there's nothing more to be said. The idea that there has to be a last word in all these threads that satisfies everybody, including random people who weren't even participating, is part of what makes these threads so awful. I'm not going to keep a slapfight going just to entertain you. Deal with it.

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G0lg0thvn 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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