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Originally Posted by Camaero
Isn't it yet clear that extreme leftists and extreme rightists are bad?  |
Well, yes and no.
What seams extreme now may have been normal in the past and what was normal in the past may seam extreme now. Whats more; to the extremist the extreme seams normal, whilst the normal seams extreme.
The history of ideas and ideals is one of a battle of extremities that results in compromises only for these compromises to become extremities compared to the latest ideas.
That's not to say that the, now extreme, normals of the past where wrong, they where just the natural products of their time; as are the current normals.
To those that like the way things are changing; this is progression. To those that do not like the change; it is degeneration.
It is important to just dismiss what is generally seen as extreme or you personally see as extreme with out judging ideas and ideals in a informed and responsible way when you can.