I voted your post up, not because I necessarily agree with your statement, but because IMHO, dissent is the surest sign of a healthy community. It's always a good policy to assume your dissent will not be well received and only a coward would withdraw dissent because he knows the majority may be against him.
BTW, a good dissenter never retires. They may get shot, hanged, burned at the stake, but I believe that tilting at windmills is an honorable if not profitable calling.
Poetic Justice