Iains, I completely disagree with your views, but what I believe is

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine in First Principles of Government (1795)

If this continues to happen - deletions based only on disagreement with you - send a PM or an email to Max. He doesn't approve. Personally, it would just be easier to close threads where it continues, but then, I find the fighting (will not deign to call it "debate") a complete and disagreeable use of Mudcat's bandwidth.

Thank you. My involvement related to biased deletions ends here.