Well, it's certainly not my style, but I would generally take it as an expression of intense feeling about the topic. If it were my wife or my child or my pare

Well, it's certainly not my style, but I would generally take it as an expression of intense feeling about the topic. If it were my wife or my child or my parent saying this, it would probably reduce me to tears. If it were a community leader, it would probably certainly make me feel really really bad. But I wouldn't be suicidal over it. Depending on the topic, and how strongly I felt about my position (I have felt strongly about memory allocation approaches on certain 68K-based machines before), I might reply in kind. You?