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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4144661" data-attributes="member: 177">Let us be clear - "You don't agree with me so therefore you are either stupid, ignorant, or otherwise do not understand," is not what we consider to be an acceptable rhetorical construct around here.  People are free to have their own opinions, and failure to agree with yours does not mean they are not well-informed opinions.  Different people have different priorities, and different needs.  In this particular case, they may understand what benefits they might reap, but not care about them for some reason.Keep your minds and ears open - listen, and don't come anywhere near being insulting, folks.  Since this is, in effect, a discussion about a sort of public policy, it touches many hearts like politics does.  If you folks start acting like people in a political discussion, so will we mods - and that means we'll put a stop to the discussion altogether.  If you've got a question about why we are asking you to be excruciatingly polite here, please take it to e-mail to one of the mods, and we'll try to take some time to explain it.</blockquote>