Please don't try to inject nationalism into the discussion. At the very least, it's rhetorically rude. (I know this isn't a reply to your actual argument, but

Please don't try to inject nationalism into the discussion. At the very least, it's rhetorically rude. (I know this isn't a reply to your actual argument, but I don't have the authority to delete epistemically dangerous posts, so I figured posting this was more appropriate than trying to get myself set up as a censor. :-) ) (Also, is there a commonly agreed-upon way of putting a :-) emoticon at the end of a parenthesized region? The apparent paren mismatch bothers me.)