[natch]

It's not so much to educate those who have an ax to grind, and I tend to agree on where (many of) these people are coming from.

It's to allow everyone else to see under the open light how weak the ax is, and what a dull blade it has, and what poor metal it was forged out of, and how it was never a good ax to begin with.

Instead of just saying (not that you directly said this, but downvotes kind of say it): "let's not talk about that."

[rootusrootus]

I think I agree with you, but I may have less faith in the ability of random people to get past the first argument and make it to the counterpoints. I'm probably being uncharitable; especially somewhere like HN.