Comment by IG_Semmelweiss
9 days ago
on the contrary.
Good fences make for good neighbors.
Its not a coincidence that the printing press brought devastating war to europe in the form of the wars of reformation [1] .
The internet is another real tool for knocking down fences for free, by anyone. Its only a matter of time when there's pushback by angry fence-owners.
We absolutely need less friction and more of minding our own business and focusing on our own back yard instead of chiming in on someone thousands of miles away.
Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% for the free flow of information, but what people (HN crowd?) don't understand is that a significant subgroup of humans cannot tolerate relentless change or challenges to their worldview for too long.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion#Defi...
See also the importing of millions of people whose worldviews we cannot reconcile with ours.
It’s not just the HN crowd.
I think that said something about your worldview rather than those million.
The fact that you made a throwaway in order to make a personal attack rather than substantively engage with the point indicates that you don't actually have a good argument against it.