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Originally Posted by Willravel
Complacency is something that effects people across the board. If you're complacent, just the same as you don't speak your mind to the powers that be you're not going to take up arms against anything. It'll probably be years before terrorism against the people actually responsible for America's woes comes to pass, if ever.
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The use of the word "complacency" makes it sound like you feel it's a bad thing. Like
Wes Mantooth said, if you own a big car and a big house and a big family and a big ... big ... big ... why would you want it to change? If the law says we should stone hookers and christians and it's my job to find them why would I want to change my life? Unless I lack these basic amenities to life (yes, a yacht is a basic amenity and I want one) then I don't think I'm complacent.
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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
I think its also difficult to describe what extremist is as well. What seems extreme to one person may be perfectly normal to another, the same applies to different countries and cultures as well. Often times when we describe something as extreme (we see people labeled extremist in politics/media everyday) we are describing something that just seems foreign or unusual to ourselves or ideology. A lot of what some people think of as extreme is often times very common and we see it everyday.
The question then becomes what really is an extremist view? Would a more appropriate label be outsider views? Something so different from the rest of it environment that its uniqueness forces people to label it as extreme? I don't know just thinking with my fingers I guess.
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Ohh, I have a universal definition for extreme. Not minding your own fuckin' business. That's extreme.
Think about it, if we didn't have priests damning us to hell and politicians banning same sex marriage we'd be the ultimate society!