<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Again, I feel compelled to not let the word 'radical' be used to mean something bad. You're using it, it seems, as a stand in for someone who can't take criticism, satire, jokes, etc. But there are already other, better words for that. Why not just say 'dogmatist'?</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Also, there are different behaviors to react to criticism depending on context. Sometimes, one's patience can reasonably be at its limit. I've run into cases where people simply repeat their criticisms as if they've never been answered. In one discussion forum, there was a guy who went on about Georgism and would simply repeat his criticisms of non-Georgist approaches as if no one had bothered to answer them. After a while, people in the forum simply ignored him and many blocked his posts. No one, of course, advocated he be forced to recant or retract. In fact, no one even suggested he be banned from the forum. Eventually, he just stopped posting.</span><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 21, 2020, at 12:19 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">no-one has the right</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">to prevent others from giving offence, as many muslims, christians, and</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">others are constantly trying to do.</span><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Ben Zaiboc</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>What that tells this psychologist is that those people have a shaky belief system - sort of like a weak ego that cannot stand criticism. One strong in belief can enjoy satire, jokes, drawings, or any kind of criticism. We do know that the radicals in each group are a small minority.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>How would you react if someone challenged your belief in science? With patience, I hope, a shake of the head, perhaps a tendency to preach the values of science, but nothing remotely violent or even harsh.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>bill w</b></font></div></div></div></blockquote></body></html>