Welcome to A&S. It's addictive sort of like getting lots of tattoos. Yeah, each one hurts and is satisfying for a little while. Then the urge to find an empty patch of skin and ink the same thought in a slightly different way returns. The fact that it's gonna hurt is part of the attraction.

OR...the helmet thread is a microcosm very much like our current top two political party situation. Middle ground is the size of a postage stamp and gets more direct sunlight on it than all of the rest of the continent.