Thanks for the compliments, Donuel. It is a good few decades since I have had to concern myself with peer review in the formal sense, but old habits, perhaps ... Though (in my opinion) my daughter is a lot smarter than me and she doesn't let me get away with much so my in-house peer review is pretty demanding (even when, as now, it is mainly by Skype)

As to whether I - or any of us - holds an absolutist position, that's hard to answer: few of us are good judges of how others see us. I have primarily responded on this thread wearing a mathematical hat, as it is my business. That's a rather absolutist subject in some ways, but only in what follows from its axioms. It is quite comfortable working with completely different axioms. There are other hats I wear on other occasions where I might seem less absolutist, but who am I to judge?