[joe_the_user]

Which is to say that almost nothing that most people would recognize as entrapment is actually prohibited by the current legal understanding of entrapment, right?...

... Yeah

Edit: Down votes - with no comments? I'm pretty sure the other responses actually agree with my claim.

What is the problem here, cowards?

[dang]

Please follow the site guidelines and don't complain about downvotes—all it does is lower the signal/noise ratio. Everyone gets downvoted. It doesn't matter.

[joe_the_user]

Oddly enough, all you are doing is complaining about me complaining...

[RoboTeddy]

He's bringing down the number of needless complaints over the long run. If he has to complain a bit in the short term to make it happen, well, that's worth it!

[joe_the_user]

Only if he convince me to stop.

As it is, the fact that we're having this "conversation" at all mostly shows HN is declining in quality. I seldom complain about downvotes but when there's no comments and no obvious justification, it seems reasonably warranted.

[Gigablah]

How about this then: complaining about downvotes will invariably get you even more downvotes, and this time they'll actually be justified due to your attitude and tone.