Originally Posted by Leto

I often wonder what drives or motivates people to go to the extremes of the spectrum. I can understand inequalities and resulting equal and opposite reactions, but really the central tendancy covers off the vast and quiet majority (let's say one to two standard deviations of the mean on both sides of the spectrum)

Methinks that if we ignore or filter out the rusty wheels on the left and right, we will just be fine. In fact those who do adopt the squeeky wheel mentality are those who have little or nothing better to do with their time.