I appreciate your sentiment and, in general, I think you have a point about short comments such as mine. But, in this instance, I think it is reasonable to be dismissive of this story in this context.
I honestly don't understand the value of this story, why it is on HN, why anyone has upmodded it and why it hasn't been killed. There are plenty of off-topic human interest stories which I find compelling (one example is the great one describing a writer's experience interviewing Mr. Rogers) and wouldn't mind seeing here occasionally even if they don't strictly meet the submission criteria.
My expectation upon seeing an off-topic story here (and with so many points!) is that it is of such compellingly high quality that reading it is probably justified. I'm sure we can conjure up some allegorical way in which this story is relevant to both me and many others here, but there is plenty of real literature which does that much more effectively.
I honestly don't understand the value of this story, why it is on HN, why anyone has upmodded it and why it hasn't been killed. There are plenty of off-topic human interest stories which I find compelling (one example is the great one describing a writer's experience interviewing Mr. Rogers) and wouldn't mind seeing here occasionally even if they don't strictly meet the submission criteria.
My expectation upon seeing an off-topic story here (and with so many points!) is that it is of such compellingly high quality that reading it is probably justified. I'm sure we can conjure up some allegorical way in which this story is relevant to both me and many others here, but there is plenty of real literature which does that much more effectively.