[TomMckenny]

It might seem that way but, as the many posts bellow show, that is literally what is being advocated. There should be no disclaimer on posts advocating drinking Lysol because: the parents would have hurt the kid anyway, there are already warnings on the bottle and, the sole remedy should be punishing the parent. It is Poe's law incarnate.

[dang]

I know (we all know) how hard it can be hard to let go when other people say wrong or otherwise bad things on the internet, but it's a skill we all need to develop. If you simply foment against the badness and wrongness, it only adds more badness. HN is an experiment in trying to co-create a place on the internet that doesn't collapse into rancor this way. Maybe you don't owe the person you're arguing with better (though maybe you do), but for sure you owe this community better if you're posting here.

Even if your interpretation was accurate, no one is going to give their kids Lysol to drink because of any comment in this thread. Meanwhile you do actual damage to this place by posting in the flamewar style.