(04-04-2010, 02:24 PM)thefool Wrote: You guys need to chill and not take it personally when I call your opinions extreme.
The difference between offering intellectual commentary about opinions, vs. judging someone personally, is that little word you.
(04-04-2010, 08:20 AM)thefool Wrote: extremism of any kind leads to elitism and elitism leads to STS tendencies...There are a lot of great causes in the world but you take it too far and you fall in the STS trap
(04-04-2010, 02:24 PM)thefool Wrote: We all can find something extreme in our lives. Someone is extreme fitness enthusiast, someone is extreme workaholic. In my book extreme just indicate out of the norm.
The term extreme is subjective. Extreme fitness has a connotation of dedication, adventurousness, and hard work. Extremist is more commonly used to refer to those who use violence to achieve their ends. Thank you for clarifying you view of the term extreme. I hope you can see how that came across, when Marxists, Communists, and Crusaders were used in the next sentence to illustrate the point, rather than cycling and mountain climbing.
(04-04-2010, 02:24 PM)thefool Wrote: I think there have been numerous presentations of those ideas in this thread by many many people.
None that addressed the questions we've been asking.
peace