>In other words, having a conviction and trying to persuade others of
>that conviction is impolite. I have long suspected that Kelley belonged
>to that category of freshmen comp students who believed that criticizing
>a belief was a suppression of free speech. This seems to confirm that
>suspicion.
There's a difference between having a conviction and trying to persuade others of that conviction, on one hand, and being patronizing and insulting to people who don't agree with you, on the other.
Doug