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                   %EXTREMIST DICHOTOMOUS OPPOSITES 960119

     Extremists  seek  to  force people  to  make  choices
between   dichotomous  opposites---and  so  are  prone  to
violence against  each other and against people who wisely
seek to  transcend their  extremism  and lack of tolerance
towards creative people and ways of resolving conflicts.

     Extremists promote conflict as a matter of principle,
because  they see conflict as supporting their own ideals,
values  and  principles.  Conflict resolution makes  sense
only  if  you value personal and communal  integrity  more
than  you value clearly defining yourself as  better  than
others whom you have defined to be different in ways which
justify  rejection,   excommunication and  destruction  of
them.

     To extremists it is obvious that extremism is  worthy
of respect; and that their particular form of extremism is
worthy  of  unlimited  respect---just  because  they  have
defined it so, and have ultimately committed themselves to
their particular form of extremism.    The just cause,  is
by their definition, a  cause which supports their form of
extremism.   Any  form of transcendence of their  form  of
extremism is, by their  definition and commitment, clearly
unjust and to be opposed.

     Issues  are  clearly  and  unambiguously  defined  by
extremists  in dichotomous terms which are central to  the
paradigms of extremists.

          GUILTY           vs      INNOCENT
          WRONG            vs      RIGHT
          EVIL             vs      GOOD
          DEVIL            vs      GOD
          IMMORAL          vs      MORAL
          DAMMED           vs      SAVED
          BLACK            vs      WHITE
          REJECTED         vs      ACCEPTED
          THEM             vs      US
          TRAITOR          vs      DISCIPLE
          DISOBEDIENCE     vs      OBEDIENCE
          NON-CONFORMITY   vs      CONFORMITY
          CHAOS            vs      ORDER
          CRIMINAL         vs      LEGAL
          INSECURITY       vs      SECURITY
          VULNERABLE       vs      DEFENSIVE
          LEFT             vs      RIGHT
          LIBERAL          vs      CONSERVATIVE
          IMPURE           vs      PURE
          IMPERFECT        vs      PERFECT
          COLORED          vs      WHITE
          UNSCIENTIFIC     vs      SCIENTIFIC
          REFLEXIVE        vs      OBJECTIVE
          SUBJECTIVE       vs      OBJECTIVE
          INEXACT          vs      EXACT
          QUALITATIVE      vs      QUANTITATIVE
          UNCERTAIN        vs      CERTAIN
          DOUBT            vs      CONFIDENCE

     Extremists find  it easier to be  enthusiastic  about
what they believe and do, because they do not see any need
to consider complicated issues and outcomes.  They have an
easier  time  of recruiting people to join  with  them  in
their  crusades,  campaigns,  missions and wars---than  do
people  who  more honestly deal with  conflicting  ideals,
values  and  principles  in efforts to  resolve  conflicts
through  GETTING  TO  YES and seeking  ways  to  make  all
participants  in  conflict  resolution  to  find  WIN  WIN
outcomes.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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