Great display of initiative and courage on your articulate article, @deliberator. Once you come out of that bubble it hermetically seals and there's no goin back! Yes, it's unfortunately true - way too many things for most people's comfort. That got me to thinkin...a famous quote kept popping up in me wee noggin.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
Well this is the thing is it not, that all of us have to talk openly without fear and without repercussions or censorship, as nobody is going to set the world straight by any of those means. Thanks for a top class comment.