Herein lies the reason these threads will never reach any kind of accord or resolution.
When you end up attacking and insulting those who are on your own side, you've allowed emotionalism to cloud your judgment. I did not say, and you have no reason to assume, that my opinion was uninformed.
Also, I do not ask people to respect my ignorant stupidities. I ask them to gawk in stupefaction at my well-reasoned and intelligently stated stupidities.
Further, while you may have the intellectual satisfaction of being, say, innocent of a particular crime, if the evidence is against you, and your winning personality has even your own lawyer dubious about you, then you will probably be convicted anyway.
It is always prudent to keep your wits about you, and not let an angry tongue wrap itself around more than you can deal with on your own.
Sorry pal, but you've made a reasonable point by first distorting mine.
My point was that in this country, anyone is free to say, "two plus two equals five," but no one is required to believe them, or even respect them for it.
Where you get whole groups of people claiming divine inspiration for "two plus two equals five," and calling all others "conspiracies" or "the religion of two-plus-two-equals-four," then I'd say the time has come for some pretty blunt words.
But, if you take that as an insult, then I appologize. Sorry.