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Thin skin is dangerous here.

Oh, good grief, man! My "skin" isn't the issue, here (I've taken far worse, on many other forums, with nary a peep). Tell your aphorism to the dozens of anti-Catholic-Church commenters in the religion forum who whistle for the RM, when the conversation with Catholics gets "intense". The poor fellow (RM) would have much less work to do, if non-Catholics were to call a self-imposed moratorium on calling for him for every alleged case of "mind-reading", "making it personal", and other nebulous accusations. If Catholics do so as well, it's often because even they get a bit tired of "being reported to the authorities" frequently, while at the same time enduring the very things from anti-Catholic-Church people that they [the Catholics] are accused of doing.

For what it's worth: I used to comment on the Hannity Forum (I may've mentioned this before), and the RM there would have laughed (or, more likely, snarled) at complaints that people were "mind-reading". The response from the RM would have been, "Y'all... put on your big boy and big girl pants, and toughen up... or find another thread. I have more than enough to do without chasing down every instance where someone's afraid that their thoughts are being read, rightly or wrongly!"

In short: I'm quite capable of handling (or ignoring) all sorts of negative "static" in a conversation, whether rational or irrational; I'm simply pointing out that a constructive conversation is better done without the irrational and nasty side of things... and if rules ARE in place, then you should be willing to live by them, yourself. "Rules for thee, but not for me" just doesn't wash.