You didn't start a firestorm at all, you started a

You didn't start a firestorm at all, you started a healthy discussion that most here are capable of sharing their adult thought process in, but at least one person had to be that fool who takes it to a place of being mean to people who say things they don't like.

Healthy discussion and sharing well thought-out points is what debate is all about. It's how we learn to think of other perspectives and things we may not have considered when making our choices.