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    %MODERATE FRAGMENTIVE EXTREMIST BEHAVIOR PEOPLE+980505                                                       
   %IDEAS IDEALS VALUES GOALS ATTITUDES ASSUMPTIONS+980505                                         
  %RECOGNIZE DESCRIBE NAME ADDICTIVE PATTERNS EVILS 980505                                       
                                                                                                                               
     When  we are confronted with  fragmentive  extremists                                                                     
and  their  addictive  patterns of behaviors  ---   is  it                                                
helpful  to avoid recognizing  and  describing people  who                                                                    
persistently engage in  patterns  of  behavior  which  are                                                       
extreme, fragmentive, alienative, addictive, etc?   If so,                                        
why so?                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     Can we  deal  wisely  with  extremists'  patterns  of                                                                     
fragmentive behavior --- without recognizing extremists as                                                       
persons  who promote such patterns of behavior?    If  so,                                                       
how so?                                               
                                                                                                                               
     Perhaps  we need to recognize extremists as  carriers                 
of  dis-ease  ---  in much the same way  as  we  recognize      
people  who carry micro-organisms that  cause   infectious                                                                    
diseases.   It   will  probably  be  futile  to  look  for                                                                     
biological organisms which cause such dis-ease.    It may,                                                                     
however,  be helpful to  look  for  respected:  attitudes,                                      
assumptions, beliefs,  convictions,  ideas, ideals, goals,             
prejudices, mis-information,  and patterns of confusion---                                                                     
which  lead  certain kinds  of  people  into  patterns  of  
behavior    which    are:     fragmentive,     alienative,                                        
disintegrative, contentious, combative, coercive, violent,           
etc.    Therein  we  may find agents analogous to:  molds,                                                                     
amoebas, bacteria, prions and viruses.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
     What are some of the risks in this approach?                                                                              
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Too readily  labeling  people  in  public  and/or                                                                    
formal ways---thereby eliciting extreme responses.      
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Striving to be better than,  superior to, or more                                                                     
righteous than those  we  find  reason to  look down on---       
thereby eliciting extreme responses.                                  
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Imitating  the manner of those whom we  criticize                                                                     
while  opposing the positions which they have  taken---and                                                                     
so accentuating the feed-back-loop of extremism.                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Forgetting  that engendering alienation in  order                                        
to accomplish some goals or fulfill some ideals---will  in                                         
the long-run undermine  the  endurance and significance of                                                    
our positive accomplishments.                                                            
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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