Flagging is one thing, but I assume that there is a human in the loop before a user is put in the dead state.
Further, even if we leave something dead, it's no indication of any "agreement" or "endorsement" of anything. We're not here to promote any editorial line. All we care about is whether a comment is within the guidelines:
[0]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...