On Sep 6, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote:
>> IMO, the fatal flaw here is that it assumes that all individuals have
>> 'good' flowing out of them.
>
> It seems to me that all extremist (that is to say "simplistic")
> philosophies suffer from a similar flaw: believing that others
> believe as they do, and if they don't, they should. Which leads to
> "they must."
Exactly. You take some reasonable general notions (people are good),
and extrapolate that to unreasonable extremes. It's just another form
of fundamentalism.
-- Ed Leafe
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