>It's sad you feel as if you have to apologize preemptively for asking a question.

Unfortunately, without disclaimers someone is bound to misinterpret the comment. If the comment isn't defensively worded in a way to explicitly prevent bad faith interpretations, someone is bound to come tilting. It is difficult if not impossible to imagine all the ways a given comment might be interpreted. Even seemingly unambiguous passages are construed to mean opposing things.

That's just where we are.