I do not consider my post an attack. The elderly raise the youth, and the youth has to help the elderly to gracefully pass away. And who says I don't bother, is unworthy of being raised, which is a work of incredible effort, and of lenghty years. Saying that someone does not merit sth. is not an attack, or an insult.
I think the original comment was talking about elderly that didn't raise their own youth well. Because the ones who did it successfully do not depend on whole society that much, and can rely on their own children.
The whole of the youth depend on the whole of the elderly, and vice versa. That's society. If we only rely on our parents and our offspring, than that's a tribal system, there's no society.
The comment was trollish and inhumane, but yours was still a personal attack, and those are not allowed here, regardless of what you're responding to. Please don't do it again.
Because you made an insulting claim about the author and his or her parents. It's not your place to say such a thing, nor could it ever be justified by a mere internet comment, however obnoxious. More importantly, HN isn't a place where people are allowed to treat one another that way.
I appreciate that your intent was to defend the people the commenter disparaged, but you did it in the wrong way, by disparaging back.
How? AFAIK people get to be paid for the time they work, and they raise the youth in the remaining time. Yes this is a generalisation, but most often nobody gets paid in order to merely procreate and raise their kids.
