It does not help Dave.
I have no interest at all in why they hold those opinions and have no interest in trying to get them to change their minds.
If you have no interest in discussing opinions, what are you doing here?
What was the point in starting this thread?
If all us contributors merely stated our opinions there would only be about ten posts and none of us would have learned a single thing.

I have no interest whatsoever in even attempting to discuss it with someone of such a wildly different opinion that it can only ever end badly.


How sad that you can not exchange views with people holding different opinions without it ending badly!
I can and I do. Some very close friends of mine hold wildly different political views and it just adds to the fun when we get together.

This is a discussion forum Dave.
If you post controversial statements you must expect to be asked to support them and to have them challenged.
That is what the rest of us come here for.