I read this as "HN can decide that technology and morality don't ever come into conflict" and see it as both ridiculous and false.
What else are all the posts about Facebook/Uber/Net Neutrality/Security about? These are primarily moral issues that relate to tech, not tech itself. Most commenters here regularly engage in these conversations, as they should. But not allowing for other conversations to veer into the discussion of politics and morality isn't realistic. We need to be having those conversations more and more as tech becomes a part of the world.
The original post in this thread is 100% correct. You can't just isolate tech.