The GP already stepped in the wrong direction with name-calling rhetoric, but the thing to do in that case is to improve the thread by stepping back in the right direction. You can make your substantive points that way, so there's no loss. They'll be more persuasive actually.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

  Both spellings of that word are acceptable

There's nobody, and I mean 'nobody' literally, whose actions I cannot empathize with, if I take into account their limitations and life experiences. It's impractical to do that in everyday life. One would never be able to pass judgement on anybody. And I pass judgement on these dangerous idiots.

A reminder, by the way, that my feelings here aren't particularly directed toward you, personally :)

Not super related, but it's caused me a number of problems...