that we all know exactly which DUer you speak of. He pretty well dominates that forum, and all too often, with the iron fist of "reason". However, I have seen him chagrined by his fellow "right-thinkers" when they've sometimes taken him to task for his ideas, such as regulating the Internet. I seem to recall that some of them balked at that as much as we would.
And all these aspects we discerned here, such as "right-thinking", "cleverness", "control", are all simply parts of the whole, the Fear inherent in their attitudes and postings. I don't know if it's a simple "fear of the unknown" or just of being even slightly "out of control" but it certainly guides and tempers all of their actions and reactions. I rarely see them hold themselves back, or even step back, and attempt to see the whole picture. They certainly can't seem to hold back in a "good" debate of semantics 
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