Cobra wrote
Everyone else is staying quiet, trying to be safe.

This is an example of an erroneous assumption. There's no particular reason to assume that hairdog, choc, honeypot, GEL, NJ, cemar, etc. (including me) are staying out of the discussion to "try to be safe."

I'm staying out of the convo because the precise subject matter doesn't interest me too much. I don't feel particularly passionate about it one way or the other. Besides, you and fearless are well-matched. I've been in these nit-picky fine-tuned convos with you before, cobra, and not only are they not particularly entertaining, at the end of them I usually don't feel we understand any each other any better. Doesn't mean I don't love you... I'm still remembering that nice bolt of silk you brought back from the Crusades... also that case of the clap.