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The bias on HN is that people who prioritize being nice, or may possibly have humanities degrees or be ultra-libs from SF, are wrong because the correct answer would be cynical and cold-heartedly mechanical.

Other STEM adjacent communities feel similarly but I don’t get it from actual in person engineers much.

>>astran+(OP)
Being nice is alright, but why is it that this fundamental drive is so often an uninspiring explanation behind yet another incursion towards one's individual freedom, even if exercising said freedom doesn't bring any real harm to anyone involved?

Maybe the engineers conclude correctly that voicing this concern without the veil of anonymity will do nothing good to their humble livelihood, and thus you don't hear it from them in person.