But how can we logically separate "trying to offend" and "not trying to offend" stances here, on a social platform, by reading two or three sentences comment written by some anonymous?
Assume good intent and interpret as generously as possible. I believe some version of these common sense notions are even in the site guidelines for Hacker News.
Do away with all these rules that serve no purpose other than to slot each other into buckets of enlightened and evil.
It's a sign that we have things way too good.