Thanks, impartial reader, but your comments are a little on the general side.  Based on bitter personal experience over many years, I've long given up on achieving "consensus" on something as controversial of monetary theory.  As Gregalton has pointed out on the debt-based monetary system talk page, it's not like "quilting".  How money should be produced and distributed in the modern economy is (if you hadn't already noticed) a slightly contentious issue.  Contentious enough for the argument to be concluded with an assassin's bullet (at least according to some monetary historians).  The question is not my manners, which I acknowledge are non-existent, but whether someone should DELETE what I have written ON MY OWN TALK PAGE on this basis, and threaten ominously "you will not be warned again" (I'm now reflexively turning around all the time to check how long Coren's knife is).  Instead of deleting and threatening, how about editors take the time to make constructive comments and suggestions to amend the text?  I can live with not being liked.  However if someone wants to take the time to actively "terminate" me ON MY OWN TALK PAGE, they can't expect to do it without a fight and some risk to their own... how should I put this... tranquility.  Alternatively they can leave me the Hell alone and let others read what they want to read.  No one is pushing anyone's face into the computer screen to read what I've writen.  If they don't like it, they can go off to Zenwhat's cannabis culture page.  I'm sure it's very informative.