Ms McArdle, first of all, thank you very much for this intereting column, and for taking the time to actually address some of the quetions it generated. It's a rare pleasure to see someone as interested in engaging with the opposite side as you obviously are. Now, if you allow me, being a liberal-leaning individual, I feel compelled to play the unlikely role of a Dr Jordan Peterson and discuss the points in which your analogy fails -- because they are just as interesting as those in which it works.