[extropy-chat] Moveon.org

Kevin Freels megaquark at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 16 20:12:53 UTC 2004


> Every time a liberal appears on television there are
> millions of conservatives yelling 'socialist',
> 'pinko', or even 'Commie!' at the screen.
>
I agree. People always like to classify people into groups. Leftists call me
"fascist" while right-wingers call me "liberal" when in fact, I am a psuedo
libertarian minarchist atheist social utilitarian that prefers a strong
defense. I think this comes from the human desire to classify all things
into groups, combined with the need to exaggerate to make a point. Lack of
education makes it worse, since the less educated aren;t even aware of how
many "groups" there are. They are forced to place many people into one group
even though the people in those groups may have enough differences to cause
them to start killing each other. This is why most Americans place all
people of middle-eastern descent into a single group called "rag-heads" even
though shi'ite muslims and sunnis are different enough to kill each other
over it.

Just remember, conservatives aren;t the only ones guilty of this kind of
behavior. :-)



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