it's "zeal" and there's nothing wrong with zeal.* It means you
   have enthusiasm for it.* It's important to you to defend.* The
   only thing I ever ask of people is that they recognize their
   zeal from a 'meta' point of view, which you do and that's
   awesome. It's the people that don't recognize their zeal that I
   will sometimes engage in length conversations with. If a cause
   is important to someone, I'm all for it, so long as they realize
   they're on a cause or a quest or that it's meaningful to them.*
   It's the people who say, "It's the Truth and that's that" that I
   try to combat because, well, then they sound religious.* And ...
   not that there's anything wrong with that per se... but when
   someone believes they're beyond religion yet behaves like
   someone who is religious... it looks a little silly when they
   can't see the absurdity of it at least a little. I don't think
   it's a defect in you at all; it's just something that matters to
   you and I think that's great :)