[dang]

Two things can be true: (1) many things are evil and terrible; (2) HN commenters need to follow the rules.

Imagine if the rules were suspended whenever the topic is evil/terrible or people feel it is. That would amount to having no rules at all.

In fact, the opposite is the case: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html