You raise a good point... essentially the same point I made earlier -- insulting people is as bad a strategy for changing behavior as yelling at them. If I wer

You raise a good point... essentially the same point I made earlier -- insulting people is as bad a strategy for changing behavior as yelling at them. If I were trying to get moralizing conservatives to agree with me, then not insulting them would indeed be the first part of an effective strategy. However, I'm not trying to change minds, because that is also fruitless. For the same reason that trying to convince ordinary people that their promiscuous lifestyles are bad won't actually change their behavior, trying to convince moralizing conservatives that their entire worldview is wrong isn't going to change their perspective. This kind of person is not trying to achieve an effective outcome through policy, they're trying to use policy as a weapon against people they don't like. Debating the effectiveness of various policy options won't move that particular needle, so why bother?