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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: John Carragher who wrote (172323)7/4/2006 10:23:05 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793721
 
one can express distress , it is the bringing of it to extremes that one has to wonder where this is going....Are we discussing the rape situation or are these posts really about the war and the administration.


I think that what occurred between the initial expression of distress and the "extreme" you cited is key.

Had the original expression of distress not been met with such a negative barrage, particularly a barrage that inferred and took umbrage regarding the broader "war and the administration" when that was not necessarily implied, then the subsequent extreme would not have been provoked.

Some people are inherently extremists. Other people aren't, but most of us can escalate into extreme language by, er, overstimulation. These things spiral. You can't blame the resulting extreme expression solely on the writer of that expression, IMO.
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