Xena,
Smart thread, and good post by dave and everyone.
These little squabbles are really nothing to get all upset about, they just apart of life.., real life, sometimes they lead to better understandings and sometimes not.
Since we have an many intelligent people here I think these thing happen with the better out come.
And I think some one is a fool.., if he is too quick to take offense(permanately).
Since it took great effort and rational thinking to get out of the borg in the first place, I sincerly beleive there are not many here that are in that catagory.
If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?