Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
A noble sentiment and one with which I agree completely. As you say a diplomatic and honest reply is followed by a contentious post revealing the writer's underlying feelings about the validity or otherwise of wearing a kilt, thinly disguised in a convoluted argument trying to dissemble any valid claim to that garment and, in fact, any claim to the history and tradition behind it.
The bottom line is that nobody can or wishes to stop anyone wearing a kilt - how can they? What this whole discussion seems to throw up, however, is the underlying uncertainties felt about wearing a garment that purports to define a nationality when one does not belong to that nation oneself. What better way to dissemble the whole facade then than to argue against the very existence of that nation? If it doesn't exist how can anyone have a better claim to its symbols?

Fair enough but by virtue of the speculative nature of each position to be had on this subject it becomes a cyclic debate that is inevitably unresolvable.