
Although it was fun reading their
As a self-proclaimed libertine myself, I have no qualms about anyone's political viewpoint, no matter how

What a strange world we live in! People fighting tyranny with another form of tyranny!! People fighting extremism with another form of extremism!

Are these people wolves in sheepskin?
We all know that extremism is a dangerous thing, but it's also the easiest thing to fall into, because it's so simple, so black-and-white. Just look at how many young minds are "tricked" into following the Taliban, the Nazis and joining the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution.
However, the real world that we live in is not just black-and-white, instead it's full of different shades of grey. The ancient Taoist symbol shows it best - the whole of the white half is within the black half, and vice versa, there is no complete black or complete white.

A little mathematical explanation for other nerds who are maybe not so enraged:

Suppose you have some strong beliefs, which in an extremist's mind, are either correct (1), or absolutely wrong (0). If you have ten 1s, and multiply them together, you still get 1. Simple!
However, life is not so straightforward and the world is not digital, so it's not just made out of 0s and 1s. Suppose your beliefs are only 90% true (i.e. 0.9 instead of 1), when you multiply these together, you only get 0.35 (rounded up!), so are you so sure that what you believe so strongly is still so correct and infallible after all?
1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 = 1
0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 = 0.348678
0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 = 0.348678
Another mathematical analogy:
What happens at y=tan (π/2)? From the graph, you can say it's +infinity, or -infinity.
Conclusion, positive infinity is the same as negative infinity, just as different forms of extremism are essentially the same thing, just as extreme-left and extreme-right in politics are in fact both different forms of fascism.
The Pub would like to thank Daveed for his post. Haters and lovers, join in by writing to the editor.
OK Daveed, sorry for necroing your post. good job with the math thing. I think it'll make good bait for both of the Aspergers afflicted political activists that you tagged below, although I've always learnt that at pi/2 it's undefined - and that's not a very nice thing to call our friends. Although you've not really defined your definition of Facism, certainly facists aren't undefined...;-)
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