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<sarcasm>Yes, we shouldn't pass judgements on people who choose to use unsafe electrical equipment, or who choose to drink too much, or who litter, or who ... <add stupid idea here>. </sarcasm>

What a crock of sh!t. Everyone should be liable to be criticised for every foolish decision! (politely and rationally, mind you). Allowing 'sacred cows' or political correctness stop intelligent criticsm stiffles both individual and human progress.

For the maladjusted freaks out there - neither is this an excuse for trolling.

Exactly. All these namby-panby, lily-livered, pussy-mouthed, shit for brains do-gooders have completely screwed up life in the UK.

"Social Workers" put pressure on the government to get smacking banned, there is no discipline in schools and there is rampant knife crime.

Some parts of the UK, (leicester, sheffeild, north london), and more dangerous than chicago, la, and miami in terms of your chances of getting stabbed.

Kids do not understand the differences between right and wrong. This needs to change.

Same as the original post. If someone I know goes out and buys Vista, then has problems with it... but keeps it on as it "looks better than XP". I will slap him for being a retard.

People need to be shown the errors of their ways.

Comparing using Windows to any of the crap you mentioned is just stupid. Alienating people by comparing them to alcoholics or idiots is not going to win OSS any supporters, and it might lose some

Stallman doesn't have to read this. I'm not the "lawyer" of RMS but i have listen to many of his talks and speak with many people from the FSF (mostly FSFE because i live in Europe and you can find them on many GNU/Linux Tradeshows).
Nobody from them wants to force people to use Free Software. They argue why Free Software is important and i think that's their right as it is the right of e.g. Greenpeace to argue why environment protection is important.
Also their goal is not to force people to use Free Software but to create a situation in which people really can choose to use Free Software or non-Free Software. Today people often doesn't have this choice. They don't use Windows or MacOS because they like it to be forbidden to share with their friends or they like it to be dependent on one company. They use it because they have to, either because for their tasks only non-Free Software exists or because they have their data in proprietary file formats and so they can't switch even if they want.

So the goals are:
(1) Have Free Software for every task
(2) Establish Open Standards so that you can communicate with everyone and freely choose your application.

That's the goal of the FSFs and RMS as i understand them and they have confident that if they reach (1) and (2) most people will use Free Software because "forbidden to share" is not the feature which make people choose non-Free Software.
But the important think is that people have a real choice today often people don't habe this choice.

Edited 2008-08-06 08:52 UTC

Having said all of that, you kind of missed the point, having overlooked the portion of the pasted text that I actually highlighted