I would be pleased if people in general would stop their knee-jerk labelling of other people as "bigots", "sexists", "racists", "anti-semites", and other such damning labels in today's society....all of which totally preclude having any chance of a meaningful discussion.......and that is the primary real purpose of those kind of terms. They are meant to silence people on the other side of a debate. They are a form of savage emotional intimidation of other people.

I would be pleased if people would stop that kind of crude labelling of others and would instead try to actually listen and understand the concerns that others have and grasp why they have those concerns. If they did so, instead of engaging in name-calling, they would discover that those others are usually not nearly so far away from them philosophically as they think. They would discover (surprise!) that people on the other side of the argument are also rational, sane, idealistic, and desirous of freedom and happiness for all humanity.

I am pleased by the fact that the overall discussion has become a little more reasonable in most of the more recent posts.....