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To: RetiredNow who wrote (9913)12/14/2001 4:37:55 PM
From: willcousa  Respond to of 23908
 
The worst thing that can happen in this world is when an evil person has charisma.



To: RetiredNow who wrote (9913)12/14/2001 10:00:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23908
 
By and large, if a society has the means to support itself, extremism is a rarety or just exercised by criminals. In a poverty stricken society extremism is much more prevalent, because cornered or desperate people do desperate things.

I question whether history supports such a thesis. imo, starving people do not have the wherewithal to revolt; it is rising, then thwarted, expectations that are truly dangerous.