Using snips of Larry's opinion, you questioned whether they represented a tactic: a skilful device calculated to gain some end/advantage.
Larry's contributions here make the forum an important port of call for me. Like all of us , he expressed an opinion. That's all there is, take or leave it. .
Where I live, prudence and respect doesn't end at property lines. You have as much right to trespass, picnic, explore flora and fauna, hunt on my property as I do, who pays the taxes.
That's why the Old Country immigrants came to these lands: freedom.