Hacker News Reader

Comment by planetjones | Hacker News Reader

23) War is never justified.

I had to stop there.

Definitely a minority opinion and one that breaks down when you bring up the inevitable argument: would you let Hitler conquer the world and exterminate its non-Germans?

You didn't make it to

> 48) Physics and most of biology are just opinions that will change every few years.

then?

Oh my god, exactly this. This one pissed me off so much. Made the OP sound like a pretentious know-it-all who actually doesn't know it all, or even any of it.

And oddly enough I stopped at this one:

13) Anger is not a real emotion. It is fear clothed. Figure out what you are afraid of before you get angry.

Anger is a very real and one of the most useful emotion, because it's so easy to recognize. It tells you something important is going on and might as well stop what you are doing for a moment and figure it out.

Anger only happens because you fear something bad might otherwise happen again :)

For that statement to be true you would have to generalize the definition of fear to "anticipation of undesired outcome" and that entire quote reduces "there are things we like and dislike". Sounds like pretentious bullshit to me rather than an insightful quote.

I tend to agree with the statement that anger is just fear without knowing the reason. It might be that the thing you fear is justified, but even then the anger becomes a concrete fear that you can act upon.

Anger clouds judgement and suspends rational thought. I struggle to see how being angry myself might be useful to me. Of course like with NLP that knowledge can be useful when dealing with another who is or gets angry.

After 18 I decided to stop. As I was closing the tab I caught 23 out of the corner of my eye and realized stopping was the right decision.

I don't understand how you can reconcile 1 and 18.

> The prequels were not as bad as you think. Don’t be a generational elitist.

i made it to 44 ;)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com