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For what it’s worth Russell’s Teapot is an illogical, fallacious analogy, and almost always the reason atheists think they’re smarter than everyone else.
Narrator: they were.
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you can keep your puritan personal take on this, and live by it all you want. All the rest of us ask is that you don't try and impose your restrictive personal beliefs on us, directly or via appartus of the state. That shouldnt be controversial.
Unlike religion, government policies are derived not from an absolute source of truth but are related only to the values of the people being governed by them. So, you know, may the best man win.
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Please go back to 1400 in your time machine. Those of us who live in the 21st century have no interest in your medieval fantasies. The only controversy is that your parents, your peers have totally warped your world view to remove compassion, logic and reason. If it wasn’t so such a deadly result for the rest of us, I would say it was sad. But we must not be sad, me must call out a destructive though process that act…
Since you've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously in other threads as well (some examples below), I've banned this account until we get some indication that you intend to use HN properly in the future. Among other things, that means not using the site for ideological battle, flamewar, or personal attacks. If you want to commit to that, you can reach us at hn@ycombinator.com. Please make sure to review the rules first: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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@dang There's a lot of unnecessary toxicity in this particular comment thread.
I've replied to many of the accounts that were breaking the site guidelines. I'm not sure I've got them all, though. If you (or anyone) do contact us about this kind of thing in the future, links would be helpful.
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Please don't post flamewar comments to HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do that because it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Personal attacks are particularly not ok, so please don't post like that again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. p.s. It l…
I don't see how that comment was a personal attack. That is the core of the argument in favor of abortion rights. PS: I didn't post that comment.
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Please go back to 1400 in your time machine. Those of us who live in the 21st century have no interest in your medieval fantasies. The only controversy is that your parents, your peers have totally warped your world view to remove compassion, logic and reason. If it wasn’t so such a deadly result for the rest of us, I would say it was sad. But we must not be sad, me must call out a destructive though process that act…
You broke the site guidelines very badly several times in this thread. Even compared to the other religious flamewar comments in this thread, yours were particularly aggressive, particularly personal, and particularly unacceptable. Since you've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously in other threads as well (some examples below), I've banned this account until we get some indication that you intend to use HN p…
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@dang There's a lot of unnecessary toxicity in this particular comment thread.
Putting "@dang" in a comment doesn't do anything. I just saw this randomly. If you want a delivered message, you need to send it to hn@ycombinator.com. And yes, it's certainly helpful to alert us to threads that were as bad as this. Users watching out for the quality of HN threads is probably the biggest moderation asset HN has—it makes a huge difference. I've replied to many of the accounts that were breaking the si…