Dear Internet Commenter,

We are fellow denizens of an especially lovely planet full of wonder and beauty. 

It's also full of ugliness and horror, but let's focus on the positive for a minute.

The bad news is that even in the best case scenarios we only get to ride this lovely planet around our sun some seventy or so times. That's assuming we're well fed, clothed, sheltered and in good health. Most of the world is none of those things. Some of us are, which is incredibly fortunate for us. 

I say this mainly to offer some perspective on why I have elected not to engage in a conversation with you. 

It's nothing against you specifically, but here's the thing: professionally I write about software, the web, privacy and a small halo of related issues. In the grand scheme of things, nothing I write about professionally matters at all. 

Software does not matter. Gadgets do not matter. The web might matter, I'm undecided on that one. But the point is you (more than likely) want to argue with me about something that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of either of our lives.

It's not that I don't care about your opinions. I might. I don't know. It's difficult to value to opinions of people you don't know. And we don't know each other and it's unlikely that we ever will. Again, this doesn't mean I don't care about your opinion, it just means I don't know and, given the constraints of our existence here (time limited), we probably both have better things we could be doing -- walking in the sunshine, playing with our kids, watching the sunset from a mountain top, making coffee by a fire just before sunrise, eating tacos, or what have you. There are a lot of amazing things to do out there. Arguing on the internet is not one them.

Most likely you disagreed with something I wrote and want to express that. So in that sense you had time for my opinion and here I am telling you I don't have time for yours and you're thinking that that is not fair. You're totally right. I apologize. But it is what it is.