Of course I don’t think that.
Thank you for the info. It was not my intent to patronize. It was my attempt to wrap it up and exit.
Back to lurking.
Edit for clarity, because some comments have been removed from the topic:
I was not talking about politeness or manners. I was talking about the usefulness of hostility vs. non-hostility when working with other human beings, in relation to employing Scalzi’s metaphor. Those comments have been removed, perhaps for having gone too far off-topic.
