Actually... No, I didn't ban you. If I had banned you, I would have done an IP ban so you couldn't return under a different handle. In fact, during the time you were banned, I wasn't even on this site. I didn't have internet access until Wednesday, November 22. So, someone else banned you. And I'm pretty sure the reason someone else banned you had more to do with your tendency to flame others than it had to do with your response to the hypothetical question. Now, I'm not prepared to say that indeed is the case as there might have been other mitigating circumstances I am not aware of. I recall a couple of e-mails about someone receiving death threats or something like that... Or maybe I'm thinking about something else... Either way, I cannot claim responsibility.
That said, Guido... (You don't mind if I call you Guido, do you?) I think that's moving us a bit away from the topic at hand, which is suggestions for how all of us as participants in this forum can make the Vox Populi forum a better place to hang out. I want to get away from pointing out and slamming specific people and get more toward building a concensus on how we should go about debating, ensuring that we have a balance between freedom of expression and respect for alternate opinions and the people who express them.
Do you have any such ideas?