Nicely reasoned and expressed. You’ve persuaded me. That is a first in the history of the internet, is it not?
I’ve had a number of occasions of finding that I was mistaken about something. I attribute the number of erroneous things I believed when I first joined FR to the fact that my family members just said, “Uh-huh, sure,” no matter how wrong I was about, for example, the partition of Cyprus.