Well, anon, you've made a reasoned post about a divisive issue and attracted all the shills. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Yes, this is an issue that has been constructed to divide us. The New York and Virginia laws seem as if they've been created to bring up the extremes of the issue in public. I think there is a purpose to it and it may lead us to more rational debate about the issue.
But right now it feels like a slide and a diversion both here and in the real world. I look forward to the time after we expose the vampires and ghouls so the rest of us can try to find a balace with both reason and morality.