Good move Bruno. I rarely participate in those types of threads. For me SRP is an oasis where I can escape the controversy and hurly burly of the world. In reading the of origin of the first twelve step group, Alcoholics Anonymous, I found that it came out of an organization called the Oxford Group.

They were one of the earliest that tried to deal with alcoholism and had some measure of success. They ended up breaking up due to internal strife caused by their members disagreeing on the many controversial causes that they got involved with. When Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob Smith formed AA they came up with certain guidelines which came to be known as the twelve traditions. One of which states that they have "no opinion on outside issues".

The founders did not want to see their only hope fall into disarray as they had experienced with the Oxford Group so they confined their discussions to alcoholism . Makes sense to me and this is one reason I avoid even reading threads with political or religious topics.

My primary purpose in coming here is to discuss shaving, razors and especially hones and honing not to get my blood pressure spiking over other topics. I get enough of that reading the newspaper every day.