I was going for a bit of hyperbole there sir, to make the greater point. The heated nature of many statements of this thread is the begining of such imposition.

You know yourself sir, that the information discussed here helped to influence a decision that I made myself, and that I am not opposed to debate, and discussion, or enlightenment.


I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe