The downvotes were probably because this is a generic ideological tangent, and those make a thread more contentious and repetitive, and therefore less interesting in HN&#x27;s sense.<p>We detached this subthread from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10767016" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10767016</a> and marked it off-topic.