Guest, in fact I welcomed K in email, PM, and in several threads. I wrote politely. I offered help and information, and did not assume she wanted or needed it. It's not her radicalism that concerns me, but her lack of knowledge about the community she's jumped into headfirst. And so I offered information.

You know, for someone who goes anonymously, you sure like to use the "I" word a lot.

BTW, all one needs to know about my place on the "radical" scale is that I wholeheartedly believe that we all have free will, and I support people's exercise of it with action and friendship. I also believe in personal responsibility, and I enjoy discovering how the two values intersect in endless variety. Beyond that, you can't know more unless you know me personally and up close, because my behavior in that regard is person- and situation-specific.

~Susan