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To: Katelew who wrote (214763)	1/25/2007 3:48:30 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"It might boil down to something as simple as different degrees of empathy when we're all young and reading alot and forming ideas." It might, but I doubt it. I see very little if any difference in moderate views of conservatives and liberals among educated people. In fact, a well balanced person (or healthy society) should seek to conserve productive and beneficial traditions, while maintaining a liberal and open mind for renewal through innovation, brought on by ever changing circumstances. It has been my observation that the vast majority, I estimate 98%, gravitate to the views of the group that nurtures them most in their own culture. The fundamentally important need for belongingness trumps almost all other social drives. Identifying with and loyalty to group is what defines community. Loyalty to tribe, religion, race, national origin, extreme liberal chaos, extreme oppressive totalitarianism, etc. can become a false sense of devotion to the banners of some group identity. People of normal intelligence often compromise reason and a principled conscience for fear of being outcast. It is this type of commitment to the external formulations of order that tends toward corruption (extremism). The cost is a principled identity of self. Bullies who fear loss of power or new members seeking validation are the most likely to lean furthest to extremes. Extremism is the plague of our generation. Your turn. Start here >>> OMG and Mercy Me!!!...