Reply #211: This is not a literary salon. What are discussed here are matters of life and death,

[Joe Chi Minh]

(and not quick deaths, either, but multiple stresses, long drawn-out suffering of those catapulted into poverty, crushed by fraud and oppression by greedy gangsters). If you can't see that you're a poor sort of a specimen, never mind, DUer!

As for moral certitude: the purpose of an open mind is to close on the truth. Some of us believe that there has always been a war in this world between lovers and haters, but if you are incapable of fury at the worst injustices in this world, you're a 'hater', no matter how smooth and civilised you think yourself. Is that intemperate enough for you?