Little Hawk, it is you who are making unwarranted assumptions about me. I do read carefully. Remember, I used to work as a technical writer and editor. However, when you make flat, blanket statements the way you have the habit of doing ("People do this" or "people think that"), then one has no reason not to assume that you are referring to people in general. If you don't want folks to take what you write as absolute, all-or-nothing statements, then perhaps you should phrase things a bit more carefully.

Don Firth