Well, site guidelines call for assuming good faith. So if that's how you're going to operate, HN isn't the site for you to do it on.
But say you're right. Say it is in bad faith. Do you really expect "and you should feel bad" to have any effect on someone operating in bad faith? For readers who are not the person you're replying to, do you expect it to make them agree with you more? What do you actually think posting something like that is going to achieve?
> Do you really expect "and you should feel bad" to have any effect on someone operating in bad faith?
Of course not. In fact, I expect there to be nothing to do to dispel conservatism and its brand of bad faith. The framing is actually wrong - I wish not to have any effect on anyone, besides telling them I see thru them.
I enjoy doing that.
> For readers who are not the person you're replying to, do you expect it to make them agree with you more?
I expect some people would be entertained, and others, as yourself, displeased.
> What do you actually think posting something like that is going to achieve?
What do you think posting anything is going to achieve? I'm interested in why you do it, given this framing. For me, online interaction offers a chance for discourse, to learn what others think, to hear rebuttals to your mistakes, and to chuckle at the occasional low blow I wouldn't throw to someone I really know.
But say you're right. Say it is in bad faith. Do you really expect "and you should feel bad" to have any effect on someone operating in bad faith? For readers who are not the person you're replying to, do you expect it to make them agree with you more? What do you actually think posting something like that is going to achieve?