Who would be so stupid as to stand in a crowd and yell beat me as you do unless you were just fooling around to get some personal laughs?

Even if someone were to do this - you would not have to join in and beat them.

It would appear that you have some problem in understanding a concept of having a free choice in such matters?

The reason I continue to post on our forum is that there are still some people posting here who do not have a problem in understanding this concept and who would choose not to join in and beat someone just because they were labelled as an easy target to have some fun with.

I and others are entitled to express our views. I am always prepared to change this view. But you really seem expect it to be changed by concerted efforts at bullying and seem dissapointed when it does not? You really seem to expect that all of the personal judgements posted at my expense would have the required effect.

Even after all this time when I really must have been called every name and accused of every conceivable sin and ulterior motive - you still do not appear to understand. All I greet this with is a little sadness in what it reveals about those on our forum who persist in posting it, those who encourage it, those who do little or nothing to bring it to an end.