I can't help finding something rather jesuitical in this constant persecution of Akenaton. SFAICS he has simply quoted some statistics from a source he has given, which he thinks demonstrate that SMS can have certain deleterious physical effects disproportionate to the number of its practitioners: & all any you have done in reply is not to challenge these figures with any counter-arguments or alternative conclusions from other quoted sources, but simply to proclaim that they mustn't be believed*, and nobody but a malevolent trouble-making troll could even suggest that such statistics could conceivably have any validity. I am reminded of the scene in Brecht's "Galileo" where he is first called before the Inquisition, and the prosecutor starts by saying "We must first establish whether it is desirable for the Earth to go round the Sun".

Then semantically, he disagrees with the extension of the word "marriage" to acquire a meaning additional to the traditionally accepted one of a partnership for the purposes of procreation between members of opposite sexes which has formed part of the law of every known society throughout history. I don't happen to agree with him here; words' meanings are not writ in stone, however established and long-standing the currently accepted usage. But it is nevertheless a viable and tenable point. It is by no means self-evident that, with the availability of the Civil Partnership for quite a few years now, this additional refinement is essential; & so far as I know Ake has never objected to that institution, which obviously fulfils a vital role.

So, if you can't produce viable rational arguments rather than kneejerk abusive contradiction based on nothing but your unquestioned PC assumptions, I think you should all just climb down off his back.


Don't expect you will, though. Some not-right-bright people's principles just run too deep for rational thought.

~M~


* please note that I am making no comment of my own on their accuracy or otherwise, which is not the point at issue in my postulation