A very well written and well considered piece. We live in societies in which we’re not brought up to think critically i.e. investigate things and take time to make considered responses. Until the day where critical thinking is put at the heart of education we’re always going to find that the majority of people naturally respond the way a lot of people have done here. It’s just the stage we’re at in our evolution, sadly. Until then:

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.”
– Excerpt from Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’.