alt Hacker News> It's not an innocent bystander, it's against the team
But "the team" doesn't get hit. One guy gets hit.
> It's not the philosophical understanding of "morality" it's the practiced version.
It's practiced violence.
> to avoid wider violence
Eye for an eye never ends. The way to avoid violence is to never start it.
> there is a "gentleman's code" to it
No, it's a caveman code for brutes. Gentlemen use words to settle their disagreements, not fastballs.
Cherry picking sections of sentences and ignoring (or maybe simply not understanding) the context to pick an argument is against the spirt of HN. Whatever your argument is being based on, it is in a completely different lane than my posts and we are unlikely to not continue talking past one another. Take care.