Wow, a personal attack for a phrase you don't like, implicitly expressing joy over the prospect of a commenter's death - and you still got upvoted for it. Amazing what people get away with here lately.
My original comment was suggesting that without a generational change via natural death, we may never see the sort of progress in our society that renders terms like "retarded" a thing of the past. The word "retarded" being a now derogatory term for people with a mental handicap.
Are you trolling me or do you just have your heart set on getting mad at me? It appears you've completely misunderstood my comments.
I'm not here to troll anyone (intentionally at least). Maybe I did misunderstand, but here's what it looks like from my perspective:
There is a huge group of new HN users who just come in here, deliver some poisonous comments, get upvoted for it, and then mostly move on. Here's how you fit that description: The thread's subject is death and life extension. A guy uses a word you really, really hate in a colloquial form. You answer the upside of death is that when he dies the word will hopefully get extinct with him. You get karma for, to use your words, trolling someone by being cheerful of their impending demise.
HN is unpredictable, and sadly you'll sometimes get rewarded for completely dickish behavior, such as expressing glib joy over the death of a fellow commenter. I believe you should not have gotten away with this so easily, because chances are you'll continue to exhibit this behavior here.
Of course you can always say that I'm not the content police and I should just fuck off instead of complaining about things I can't do anything about. However, I hope this will have some kind of impact on you. Using the word "retarded" sets you off, and expressing a wish for people to die sets me off. When you weigh those two, it should become apparent how different they are.
