I have never felt the fury of Reddit downvotes as much as when I posted this comment, which is currently at -9:

I have to sympathize with the employer at least a little. If you have customers who want to work with younger people, and a government telling you that you have to retain older people, that's kind of a shitty situation.

This is the epitome of my frustration with redditors and other opinionated people (at the risk of pissing off an even wider audience, social liberals tend to be the worst at this): Any small statement that doesn't support one's ideology is taken as an affront to the entire philosophy.

It reminds me of the students after the Columbine massacre who were suspended for merely expressing that they had sympathy for the shooters. There was no reason to take that to mean that they thought school shooting was an okay idea. But if an action is wrong, you're expected to hold nothing but 100% contempt for the perpetrator.

Rarely is your adversary pure sociopathic evil. How can you ever expect to curtail undesired behavior in others unless you reasonably consider their positions, instead of offering dismissive judgements "these kids are just murderers", "these capitalists are just greedy"?