That wasn't an honest question by the standard commenters are expected to maintain here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this. To fix it should be simple if you want to.
Of course it's not so simple to avoid seeing others through the filter of our own past experiences, especially online where so little information is available. Most of what we're all doing when we read online comments is massive curve-fitting to our own pre-existing conditions. But the rules in the guidelines are designed to mitigate at least the worst effects.
Of course it's not so simple to avoid seeing others through the filter of our own past experiences, especially online where so little information is available. Most of what we're all doing when we read online comments is massive curve-fitting to our own pre-existing conditions. But the rules in the guidelines are designed to mitigate at least the worst effects.