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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796024.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Eschew flamebait.

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

How so?

Calling an illegal act heroic doesn't hold up in court though, we will hear what they say in court later.