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It's funny that you've responded to a post about not giving a knee-jerk reaction with the most obvious knee-jerk reaction.

Did you actually read the OP and think about what it was saying? Are there any lessons that you could apply to your life? It wasn't meant to be a sweeping generality - it was meant to convey a sense, a feeling, an intuition. Namely, the idea that you (yes even you) might not be thinking things out carefully enough before responding to them.

For instance, take your idea of the reason for intelligent design. Are you 100% positive that this is actually where the idea comes from, why it persists? The anthropologist in me disagrees. In fact, I'd say that such ideas actually get carried along because no one stops to think about them...even for 5 minutes.