""No, Don...what I am avoiding doing...and most of you here can't seem to avoid doing it in your political debates...is I am avoiding speaking in absolutes and reducing situations to absolutes. I am recognizing that human beings are complex...""

Yes! You are doing that, but that isn't the whole story is it LH.

In addition to expressing your appreciation of infinite greys, as well as blacks and whites, and as you say avoiding absolutes, you absolutely imply that you are the only one here with the sense to do so.

We appreciate your ability to sit on the fence for so long without becoming a double act, but, if we all followed your example, there would be no discussion, ever again, about anything except possibly how boring Mudcat had become.

Discussion requires that there be two sides. It cannot happen without.

Your offer to take the post of arbiter is kind, but unnecessary, as we are capable of rational thought, and (occasionally) of reacting to a better argument by changing our positions.

Don T.