I can only speculate, but I guess it's either a percieved threat to a particular philosophy, or it's that all-too-common trait of not wanting to be proved wrong about something. That's the danger of certainty.
1,620 posted on 09/28/2006 9:53:12 AM PDT by LibertarianSchmoe
("...yeah, but, that's different!" - mating call of the North American Ten-Toed Hypocrite)