Syag: I never said anything about sheltered people not being Jews, I complimented the lifestyle of Chassidim, and I don’t see how level headed responses to the tune of “there has to be a limit to sheltering at SOME point” is extreme.
We’re the ones arguing for the moderate approach here. Saying that we’re all just arguing from personal experience and therefore our points are invalid is pointless. Everyone’s opinions are based on personal experiences or on people we’ve met. What makes you think your personal experiences are more valid than our’s? Because they were purely positive and we also see the negative side? If sheltering is done properly everyone turns the blind eye to the negative side and ignores the unhappy?