^FYI, I didn't mean you; I'd mentioned what I did about how people often struggle to withstand the existence of differing opinions in contrast to your own ability to effectively do so.
I'm personally glad for the existence of persons like you in "real life" as well. I'm a pretty conversant person myself, and believe that civil discourse is one of few really effective tools we have going for us in this society in order for progress to occur; and it's becoming far too much of a lost art. Keep fighting the good fight. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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