What do you mean by, "hit back so hard....?"  Has someone physically harmed you or threatened physical harm?  Have you been hit?  By whom? 

I'm not trying to be a shmarty-pants here, but the abuse of the word "abuse" is getting out of hand.  Challenging ideas with words is NOT hitting someone.  There is no logical bridge between those two.  You can call me "a liar," if you wish, but quite frankly it doesn't hurt me a bit when you do.  I shut off my computer and "you are gone."  You know what I mean?  I feel no pain...... because "I" know that I am not a liar AND we are only speaking to one another.  Now true, we should probably try to be civil with one another and pick on "ideas" vice "persons."  But we confuse the two, at times, just like any normal person....... we are normal, right?

So is it the challenging of things you believe that is the problem here?  Is that why you don't want to ask questions or make statements?  If you don't want something challenged, then don't ask/state, but don't blame me for that lack of conviction in what it is that you think will be challenged or questioned.  I've made statements here and elsewhere that have engendered all kinds of responses...... for example, my belief that a mechanical device is not the problem, but those that wield it.  Jim knows what I'm talking about and we have had some very animated discussions with regard to same.  "I" was challenged and I think "I" did pretty well in that regard, despite the figurative-pummeling that I was taking at the time.  Did I feel like I'd been "hit?"  No friggin' way!  I've been hit before....... totally different feeling, I must say!