I don't think the original poster despises anyone--I certainly didn't get that sense from anything they wrote. (Nor do I, of course.) I also certainly wouldn'

I don't think the original poster despises anyone--I certainly didn't get that sense from anything they wrote. (Nor do I, of course.) I also certainly wouldn't compel people to live any specific place, neither would I force my values on the whole world. I'm happy when we're all free to self-organize into like-minded communities, in a live-and-let-live sense. That said, this community here where we are writing tries to maintain a level of civility that I think you're no longer meeting. There are other places where you can be as impolite as you want, of course. Civility belongs here, discourse lacking in it doesn't.