I think it is possible to just take a breathe, not over-react to insanity, and just go on without knee-jerk reacting to either extreme.
I remember when people got hysterical over the use of rainbows and thought their kid was going to be turned gay or thought gay or yadayadayada because of rainbows. Punctuation is the same idea to me.
It really will be okay.

Having said that, exclamation points are the work of the devil and should be eradicated.