[kylevedder]

The target audience for my comments are the hundreds of people reading and not commenting. If you're casually reading the comments, without a foil of reasonability, I think it's easy to get sucked into implicitly accepting the premises of the zealots frothing at the mouth in the comments. You're right that I don't imagine I'm going to change the mind of the zealots.

[woopwoop]

I, for one, appreciate the points you are making here, and the doggedness with which you are making them. I basically feel the same way, but I don't usually comment on these discussions because of the general shrillness of the discussion.

[bryan_w]

Indeed, as a wise man once said, "the haters are going to hate".