Re: META: A brief phenomenology of extremism

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 23:03:52 MST


('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) >From: hal@finney.org
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:00:54 -0800
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: META: A brief phenomenology of extremism
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>Joe Dees writes:
>> Extremists cannot bear considering themselves as extremists; they
>> must look upon themselves as mainstream - either present or future.
>
>How about Barry Goldwater's famous speech, "[E]xtremism in the defense of
>liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"?
>For that moment, at least, Goldwater proudly wore the title of extremist.
>
Freedom and justice are general concepts; the extremists to which I refer are in favor of or opposed to something specific; either for a total ban on handguns or for their completely uncontrolled proliferation; either for permission of the choice of abortion up to and including during natural labor or against abortion at any time, RU-486, Preven (the morining-after pill) and even contraception.
>
>Hal

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