Why did this stack exchange site upvote this woeful answer?

Question

In the top-voted answer in this thread: Why is communism considered as evil (like fascism and nazism) in the United States?, it is argued that communism is evil.

The argument goes that communist ideas are contradictory with natural human rights (right to property, right to the fruit of one's labor, etc). Since communism would thus lead to dissent, and since that dissent would need to be contained/subdued, it follows that communism is inherently evil.

The first statement is certainly acceptable ("communist ideas contradict natural rights"). But the remaining conclusions are not linked directly to communism. The fact that the people would dissent if their natural rights were oppressed, and the fact that this dissent would need to be subdued, are two notions unrelated to the concept of communism. Hence, if it still follows that communism is evil, it must be entirely due to the first statement. That is, anything which is contradictory to human rights is evil.

But, that statement right there is absurd:

anything which is contradictory to human rights is evil.

This statement has NO meaning. Human rights are DEFINED by using the terms good and evil. One cannot say that something is a human right without already implicitly having defined what one considers evil and what one considers good. Hence, this statement is entirely circular.

It is not just a poor argument, it's not even an argument, it amounts to saying "5 equals five, therefore communism is evil". I think "oxymoron" is the word.

Am I wrong?

Clearly not. So why then did all you people upvote this ridiculous nonsensical circular answer?

Answer 1

Both this question and its answers are terrible, but they got massively upvoted only because of Hot Network Questions.

It's really crazy how a high-quality question or answer here will reach barely 100 upvotes, but a low-quality question that reaches HNQ will get 150 upvotes, even though there is less than 100 regulars here.

I myself fell victim, I asked a question that, when looking back, I find awful on another stack exchange website. For some random reason it went to HNQ and I got massively upvoted, despite my question being poor. I got a ridiculously high amount of poor answers and more than 400 reputation, despite it being the only question I asked there. (I don't link to that quesiton because I feel only embarassement for that).