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by keepamovin 897 days ago

  If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
  If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;   
  If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
  Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
Embodiment of Kipling in your statement above. Bravo, sire!

I mean I don't know if I want to pin my flag on this guy's crusade but I respect the contrarian calm in a sea of panicking hysterical activists carrying pitchforks.

Combined with other quotes, we might even have unlocked a cure to mass hysterical online panic (I'm dubbing it MHOLP for short, hahaha):

- CP would be another story entirely but I need evidence of that before I act on it. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856103)

- Hardly reprehensible. Not a very "professional thing sure, I wouldn't trust a browser made by someone who puts porn in the source but its not like its a moral failing for what seems to be someone's side project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855775)

You unsung heroes, go you!