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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165481)	4/12/2010 5:35:50 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"Well, you missed the point.>>> To ignore this growing tide of lies and hate - to laugh it off as business as usual - is fine, until the next rented Ryder truck parks outside YOUR office building..." I wasn't laughing it off as business as usual. I was attempting show that the escalation is not, and has not been, one sided. Further, I think it is a much bigger issue. Several years ago I labeled extremism to be 'the unseen plague of our generation.' Maybe it is you who've missed the point. Extremism is contagious and you have to protect yourself from it with every bit of care you would give regarding a physical virus or you will go down with it. Extremism is a sickness, used as an excuse to abandon reason while appearing to be the virtuous expression of loyalty to a group. That is what makes it so insidious. Extremists permit themselves to limit justice, devoting themselves instead to the dogma of their demographic. They deny conscience and compromise purpose, while forgetting the principles of human decency, and to claim their places on this Earth among similar fellows. We now have 100 million extra young men entering global society who will never expect to have anything like family relations. We have subcultures developing warrior societies, here in the USA and around the world. Previously united nations are becoming fractionalized with increasingly extreme opposition. 50% of the world's population does not have enough clean water. Human trafficking has become the second biggest crime in the world worth 33billion annually at last report. There are probably more slaves in the world now than at any time in history. Half the world - nearly 3 billion people - live on less than two dollars a day. 640 million have no adequate shelter. 1 in 7 has no access to health services. The planet has shrunk and unlike previous time periods, people are not going to just sit around and accept miserable living conditions. Going extreme under the circumstances is an easy choice, even if it's not the best course for humanity. It's no laughing matter.