Minime, fatue! Lingua, donec sunt qui ea loquantur, est non mortua.

Well, I guess we know which camp you're in.

I was going to assert that I have indeed dropped Dove in the shower, when I made a horrifying discovery:
Not only is Dove indeed soap, but it probably runs Windows.

I feel ...violated.

I don't know (but I suspect) that we'd be quicker, but at least we have the option to look without being accused of paranoia.

Or perversion.

It's the western mentality.
"Hey, does this belong to anyone?"
-> "It's mine."
"Oh. ...Can I use it?"
-> "No, because it's mine and I might want to use it. And besides, you might break it."
"Oh."

Ownership is one of the core concepts of western culture.

Most Ubuntu users who ask for my help are quite willing to open a terminal and run whatever commands I deem necessary to "fix" their problems.
They'll even add "sudo" to the front of the command line if a command fails. All by themselves.

And they know me...how? Because I joined #ubuntu@freenode and said something that sounded intelligent?

Security through obscurity: as soon as spammers learn how trusting FOSS newbies are... well.

I try to stay away from the elitist argument/viewpoint, since it tends to lead to some nasty holier-than-thou social delineations.

I don't see you volunteering.

The "Real World" is whatever makes money. Corporate whoring? Check. Bad actors in bad movies? Check. Bad actors having "nip slips" on live television? Doublepluscheck.

Taking time to welcome a new neighbor to the block? Nada.

Hey, it "worked" for the economy until just a few months ago.

Given that most of Google's interesting "new" toys (the official Google Talk client, for example) don't run on Linux, I doubt that this one will either.

What, you wanted to run Linux on Google StackSmasher on Windows? Oh, never mind then...

Religion-bashing aside, wouldn't eternal happiness get rather dull, anyway? I rather like the challenge of trying to stay alive. :)