On: Ask HN: Do you criticize?

[xiaoma]

Some things and people should be torn down.

[mooism2 → xiaoma]

Yes, although they are a minority.

[xiaoma → mooism2]

My home country was under single party rule in the 90's and has now emerged as a vibrant democracy with economic power on par with Australia thanks to such tearing down.

Polite requests were not sufficient to bring about change. It took confrontational, attacking arguments as well.