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  %STRONG POSITIVE CORRELATION DICHOTOMOUS THINKING+020206
 %EITHER RIGHT WRONG GOOD EVIL TRUE FALSE SAVED SIN+020206
 %RIGHTEOUS MORAL RESPECTABLE ACCEPTABLE REJECTABLE+020206
 %EXTREMISTS TERRORISTS WAR MILITARISTS SOLDIER GOD+020206
 %VARIETY PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES BETTER BEST+020206
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     How and why is it that there is a strong correlation 
       between DICHOTOMOUS THINKING which focuses upon:   
         either/or, right/wrong, true/false, saved/not,   
           righteous/not, moral/not, respectable/not,     
             acceptable/not, rejectable/not, etc. ---     
               and GOING TO EXTREMES; e.g., as            
                 physical, political, economic,           
                   religious or other kinds of            
                     TERRORISTS?                          
                                                          
     If there cannot be a variety of ways of              
       demonstrating personal and communal integrities;   
         then once one has chosen a side to support ---   
           all that one can do to be better than others   
             on the chosen side, is to go to extremes     
               of dedication, loyalty, sacrifice, etc.    
                 Thus dichotomous thinkers become         
                   extremists prone to terrorism.  But    
                     few of us want to know that or say   
                       that with any degree of clarity,   
                         so we live out classic Greek     
                           tragedies which are motivated  
                             by commitments to very few   
                               unbalanced ideals, values, 
                                 principles or goals.     
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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