On: A Brutal Inheritance

[dang → fapjacks]

Crossing into personal attack is not cool. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't.

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

[fapjacks → dang]

I assure you it wasn't a personal attack anymore than gerbilly's "obtuse" comment (and again, giving that person the benefit of the doubt, as I have throughout this thread). You and I are definitely on different wavelengths, but ignoring for a moment that someone flagged multiple of my comments (and not making any assumptions about that), nothing approaching spite or malice went into this thread.

[gerbilly → fapjacks]

No I'm not often surprised, but it is interesting to run across someone who thinks so differently from me.

In fact I've had a great deal of experience with a person exhibiting what seems like a similar cluster of behaviours.

Call it a kind of 'professional curiosity', which is why I kept the thread going past the point where any agreement seemed possible.

A poster here one said that "everyone thinks their experiences are normative". I suspect both of us are perhaps doing that.

I wish you well, and I don't mean to sound disparaging.