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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (53559)8/31/1999 2:58:00 PM
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<<<Of course there are true believers and you are correct that it is frequently necessary to rise up and be militant in order to stop them- they are the ones who create the dangerous "Zeitgeist" you speak of,>>>

Of course, everyone thinks their position is the one the opposition to which is extremist. I think this fact about human nature creates one of the problems with this conversation, and is why I wrote,

<<<I think the crucial distinction between the dangerous and the undangerous is not the degree of intensity of belief, but the degree of commitment to the idea that free discourse and civil argument can, over time, lead to compromises or solutions that can be lived with by all parties.>>>
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