You've got it SO RIGHT peter!!! That's it, plain and sample!!
Sometimes I wonder if headshavers who have MPB think that those of use who (would) still have a full head of hair are just posers. Fortunately, I haven't seen any evidence of it in my experience.
The talk about brotherhood, pure crap. If you lost your right leg, would you say an advantage was that you felt like you were a part of the brotherhood people who have lost a lef or two?