But the comments themselves show how far we must go to uplevel this debate. Some of them are mindless.
Nice to meet you in Paris, and hopefully sometime in Berlin. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
The FT made a selection of the questions, and in doing so they probably tried to represent a range of viewpoints (though I see few really tough questions). The broader response might have been much more reasonable.