Thanks for taking the time and effort to write your essay and this response.This post and your essay are clear and detailed should someone want to understand this issue more fully.
Interesting how we humans are our own destructive agents of entropy, choosing to create disorder from order by diluting the purity of the strict rules and definitions that benefit and protect us when they get in the way of our whims of the moment.
Franklin warned us when he said "A Republic, if you can keep it."
Agreed. And I mean both of you. Epic efforts.
Thank you for reminding me of this most excellent thread by sourcery!