It boils down to this - you're entitled to your opinion. It just can't be expressed on CasCity.
PJ, I always appreciate your opinions and knowledge. I disagree on only one point. I personally think that often inflammatory posts aren't made of inflammatory ideas or positions. They're made of inflammatory language. Often dissenting opinions can be shared within the framework of CAS City, and it would be a loss not to hear them. But when dissenting opinions get shared by means of inflammatory language, that's consistently when thing spiral out of control, and that's when a moderator is forced to earn his or her keep, and enter the saloon shooting.
Simply not expressing a dissenting opinion is always an option, and it would preserve the peace. But I personally doubt CAS City would be enriched by that peace. It would be much better if some would learn to share their opinions without casting dispersions or belittling those who don't agree. In the old days, some towns insisted you leave your guns at the sherrif's office. CAS City could do the same, and insist we check our tongues and fingers at the moderator's office, and go through town unarmed. But I bet CAS City would become a ghost town if the Founding Fathers insisted on that. It would be much better to learn to express one's opinion as it is, and then stop without adding commentary or dispersions.
Clearly, I am on a soap box, and someone better stop me before I lather myself in public. I deeply value diversity and dissent. I don't value inflammatory remarks. That's the essence of my comment. Better practice what I preach and stop here.