I originally ignored the portion that mistakenly assumed I had a position against your point that aggressively insinuated I believed mass murder was acceptable. I revised my comment right after posting it to append a clarification on that.
> to engage in dishonest bickering
Please do not accuse me of being dishonest without being sure backing up your words with some sort of reasoning. I'm not being dishonest. I think you are not engaging usefully, and attempted to rectify that by asking for more information, and then to explain my reasoning when it was called into question, exactly as I suggested you do originally.
> filled with more assumptions as to my motivations
I'm not sure I assumed a single thing about you. I couched all my statements generically on purpose.
I think you are stuck in a context where you are interpreting me as attacking you. if you truly think I'm being dishonest or attacking you, don't reply. If you think I'm wrong, explain how I'm wrong. If you have problems explaining why I'm wrong, perhaps reexamine the assertion that I am. I'm fully willing to entertain that I'm wrong, and admit it. It wouldn't be the first time I've done so.
Can you please not do flamewars on HN? Incivility like this will get you banned here regardless of how provocative some other comment was.
Edit: I'm sorry to see that you've done this repeatedly before. If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here in the future, we'd appreciate it.
I originally ignored the portion that mistakenly assumed I had a position against your point that aggressively insinuated I believed mass murder was acceptable. I revised my comment right after posting it to append a clarification on that.
> to engage in dishonest bickering
Please do not accuse me of being dishonest without being sure backing up your words with some sort of reasoning. I'm not being dishonest. I think you are not engaging usefully, and attempted to rectify that by asking for more information, and then to explain my reasoning when it was called into question, exactly as I suggested you do originally.
> filled with more assumptions as to my motivations
I'm not sure I assumed a single thing about you. I couched all my statements generically on purpose.
I think you are stuck in a context where you are interpreting me as attacking you. if you truly think I'm being dishonest or attacking you, don't reply. If you think I'm wrong, explain how I'm wrong. If you have problems explaining why I'm wrong, perhaps reexamine the assertion that I am. I'm fully willing to entertain that I'm wrong, and admit it. It wouldn't be the first time I've done so.