Rather than engage in a point-by-point response to the textual interpretation of Fire Cape’s homilies, I want to respond to the more general issue at hand. In the text that follows, when I quote from Fire Cape, I will use the word excrement in place of another word which is now apparently permitted in general circulation publications and which I have edited out. Stick your nose into anything Fire Cape has written recently, and you’ll get a good whiff of passive-aggressive solipsism. What is often overlooked, however, is that Fire Cape wants nothing less than to kill the messenger and control the message, hence his repeated, almost hypnotic, insistence on the importance of his self-aggrandizing, unscrupulous press releases. We can say that the right thing to do in this case is determined by various vectors of forces in an endless multidimensional tug-of-war involving ropes leading out in many directions, and he can claim the opposite, and it won’t make one bit of difference. May I assume that anyone who wants to tear down all theoretical frameworks for addressing the issue is either offensive or a conniving grievance-monger? If so, then I have news for Fire Cape: When I hear his disciples parrot the party line—that the Eleventh Commandment is, Thou shalt put political correctness ahead of scientific rigor—I see them not as people but as machines. The appropriate noises are coming out of their larynges, but their brains are not involved as they would be if they were thinking about how we should stand together and promote a more enriching, inclusive, and equitable community for all members. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren’t going to.) Finally, whatever you have learned or received or heard from me or simply read in this letter, put it into practice, and you will succeed at dispensing justice.