You may not owe altmen better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find your behavior repulsive and fervently wish you would quit.
It's not a borderline call—I'd post exactly the same thing regardless of who or what such a comment was about.
Not even close.
This guy is actively ruining society while enriching himself in the process, but we somehow can't call a spade a spade?
Pathetic.
HN's stated mandate is intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
Do you feel that your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866108 was curious (in that sense)? or was it rather that you feel something else is more important?
You may not owe altmen better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html