But John, if you object to "authority enforcing such sensitivity on people", don't you agree that the Civil Rights movement was correct and needed? I spent my teen years in Virginia in an era where drinking fountains and doorways were still marked 'White Only' and 'Colored Only' and the bus terminal was divided between the spacious hall for Whites and a small, dark, walled-off area was for the Blacks, notwithstanding that there were always more Blacks in the terminal than there were Whites. And of course, when it came time to board the bus, not only did the Whites go first but the Blacks trudged on to the back.

Those are just small examples of what we, as a people, did before we were forced to change. I would hope you would agree that we are the better for it. I would never, never, never go back to it.