Turelie, I am not a friend of the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours type" -- if I disagree with you, I will disagree with you, and only an honest interaction will solve it between us. If you attempt to prevent me from communicating with you directly, I will communicate around you -- and much more harshly in content than if you had simply allowed for others' reactions to be registered fairly once you state your own. It's not as if there are death-threats and cyberbombs being sent your way, afterall -- the topic is not quite that heated to warrant your self-insulation. And even if you'd deleted comments as soon as you read them, it would still have been more polite than putting up a wall to avoid them. Why should I bother to try to "circumvent" privately and civilly what you put up blatantly and offensively?

Ah well. I suppose it makes no sense to remind you that, if one really does not wish to encounter any disagreement from others on a subject, that it is best to keep one's opinions on that subject to oneself and not set them on a visibly-guarded pedestal. And that perhaps one had better live in a vacuum rather than online if all "argument" is to be kept from one's environs.

Like I said, I don't believe in telling people to shut their brains off when they go to the movies -- it's already too much of a popular pastime that needs no encouragement. If you're ever ready to broach that subject without preemptively alienating-and-abusing every thinking person who comes your way, do drop me a line.