I think you have certain ideas. I'm fine with your opinions just as they are, I honour you for that. However, in an essay where I start by saying that I'm erroneous in describing myself as a Socialist and end by saying that I'm a socialist for sufficiently libertarian values of socialism, what are we to make of my quoting a generic definition of Big S Socialism in the middle? I stated what I believe quite clearly. What I suggest you do is carry on arguing against Big S Socialism. Nothing wrong with disputing it. And if you like, you can say things like "Reginald quotes Wikipedia as saying that Socialism is ____. This is clearly a bad idea because _____."

Now as to "standing by my opinions," ask your friends in the neighborhood about me. They will tell you I have no problem standing by my opinions, even when they are unpopular. But I should make something perfectly clear: This essay describes what I like. At no time do I claim that you or anybody else will be better off if things go this way or that way, just that I will like it.

So really, there is very little value to your trying to persuade me that the world will be worse off if Health Care is nationalized or what-not. I am not writing an essay about how to make the world a better place, just about how to make my world a better place.

I believe the best you can do to oppose my views is to convince me that I personally wouldn't like working on small, self-organizing software teams. Have at it.