I don't really see any reason to hand out warnings here, moderators will have final say of course, I'm just saying that I don't think it's warranted at all. Nobody resorted to flaming, and good points from both sides were presented. I think this discussion, if anything, showed that we are capable of discussing "controversial" topics sensibly, even if we don't always do.
Agreed, now if only these discussions were possible when its not 4 :10 AM for me, ah well cant have everything.
I figured the lock would come out of it being so far off topic and the warnings would come from some controversial comments. I didn't see any but like you said, mods have the final word in it all.
I figure the lock will come because it stops flaming from starting, we can be mature, but there are many who cant.