@ fatboy -- He certainly doesn't have to keep his opinions to himself, unless he's intentionally trying to avoid any and all confrontation over them, I suppose. That's entirely up to him. He certainly seems like a very sensitive kind of guy that really does not like being directly confronted about his beliefs very much. He's apparently very easily hurt or offended by that, or something. The rest of this seems to have devolved into a more general discussion about what one is free to say around here, or not, I guess. About what's "acceptably polite" here. As if we're all a bunch of frail little old ladies or something. Heh. I really didn't think that anybody here was quite that fragile. I may have been mistaken about that, tho.

@ Startup -- I was just trying to point out that, given my background, I don't even try to claim that I've always been totally opposed to violence, per se. I think it's an integral part of our human nature, and it's been an integral part of my life for a very long time. I accept it more readily than the rest of you seem to. And I'm probably more apt to suddenly decide to abandon political correctness, or even polite civility, than the rest of you are, perhaps, simply because of that background.

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