> Give me a break. If you want to accuse metric advocates of paranoia, I'd read that paragraph again.

I was exaggerating for the purposes of humor. But it is true that there are a ton of people out there who genuinely believe that people should be forcibly prevented from using Imperial units -- that's not paranoia but simple fact -- and I don't know any Imperial proponent that's any more extreme than "I don't like metric, and cut out telling me to use it."

> Having *any* standard of measurement means not having another standard. . . . The society will impose one or the other system on us.

Not true.

> Why do you have the right to be upset when you have to buy gas in liters, but I don't have that same right when I have to buy gas in gallons?

It's not your right anyway; it's the right of the gas stations to *sell* it in the units they please.

> How is it right that I had to learn the Imperial system in grade school, but wrong that my children may learn Metric?

Both are wrong, because neither one of you were taught both.