You're very correct! And I'm just having a cranky evening, unfortunately. Some days I just seem to take so much issue with people's tone, to the detriment of addressing their point! And I want to seek out and challenge contrarianism, too... My intellectual behavior is very insecure, I'd say.

Also, when it comes to you personally, I'm very open to the darndest things you link and wouldn't take much issue if you showed me someone's endorsement of baby-eating (oops, you did actually propose a policy of baby-eating); I was trying to defuse a perceived bias only for the public's benefit.

Remember LessWrong is 3% conservative and ~30% socialist and another ~30% "Liberal"! People say "Wow" when they see someone being socially conservative.

But it's like I said before - it might be the wisest and most truth-seeking 3% (Vladimir_M alone has more life experience and practical wisdom than many other folks here combined, I'd say), the rest of us might be lagging behind in the race of ideas! I wouldn't have gotten so worked up if I didn't fear that might be the case.