> It is causing a huge amount of further unnecessary stress to people who are already coping with as much, and more, than they should be reasonably expected to cope with.
> ...
> Right now, though, there are people in this community who do not need it in any shape or form, and at the risk of embarrassing Sam, he is one of them.

It was a good idea, BG, and I thank you very much for your efforts of diplomacy. Alas, it didn't work, as people felt it necessary to continue it anyway. So I get to step in and be the great big nemesis of freedom of speech everywhere and delete the whole darned thing. Good riddance to it.

If anybody objects, I don't care.