"You may well have just gone on to accept that Joe alone was entitled to use his personal value judgement to decide for others..."

Not at all. I just accept the fact that life is not perfect, and I can't control everything.

Joe Offer is in some kind of official regulating position on this forum (which consumes some of his valuable time, I'm sure). I am not. I accept that I cannot control Joe Offer, nor can I control this forum, nor does it particularly worry me that I cannot always make things here exactly as I would like them to be.

How about you?

I understand your points, Shambles. I would rather those threads of mine had not been deleted...and I would have been happy to explain to certain aggrieved people who didn't like them what my intentions were...but...shrug! It just ain't that big a deal.

It seems to be a very big deal to you, though, and that's what puzzles me.

How about we just start a whole new thread about fascism in politics...and change the title on this one to something else? :-) Whaddya say, Joe?

We could also change the term "Guest" to read "beloved and well-respected friend of the forum" in all future cases of anonymous or named Guest postings.

- LH