That may well be so, but we need you (<-- I don't mean you personally, of course, but everyone here) to follow the rules even when another comment is wrong or bad. Otherwise we end up in a downward spiral. There's actually an interesting reason for that: we all underestimate the provocations in our own posts and overestimate the provocations in other people's posts. If the skew is 10x each way then that's a 100x perception gap. Since more or less all comments suffer from this baseline bias, we need to compensate for it by doing extra work to stay within the guidelines.

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