"I politely asked them if they actually thought the aisle lighting would really work in an emergency, and that was that)."

Lol Mike, I WISH I could be THAT quick on my feet!
I usually come up with the snappy reply 5 minutes too late.

The thing I like best about America is we CAN dissent, loudly and often. That stimulates constuctive thought processes.

Sometimes we find that we do need to redraw the line. If we find we redrew in the wrong place, dissent will help us figure out where to redraw it again.

I have a problem with the crowd that says we can't redraw it at all.