Decoy,
IMO, you are a wise, intelligent, decent gentleman and though I may not agree 100% with you opinions (and visa versa) you present yourself here respectfully and deserve the same in return. There are threads that seem designed to troll for fights. There are posters that drag threads not designed for such into them. Neither should happen but they will. It seems not so much a community building exercise but a frustration thing that has already caved in on division.
On that, I like more this: