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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8540341" data-attributes="member: 7032025"><p>And I thought that this was just an example for [USER=7023887]@AcererakTriple6[/USER]'s campaign, however you have good examples of actual political extremists for example in Mistborn, in the WIE and NSWIE sections.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For me, it does, in the examples although I agree that the main example at the top is less political than racial in the end.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, why don't you propose some or explain why Thanos is wrong (and which of the Thanos you are speaking about, I think it might matter) ?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why I admit that they are not purely religious/philosophical examples since they mix in other concepts, I personally find them interesting, and the mixture is actually fairly realistic since in the real world, there are usually many factors contributing to extremism, for example religion + ethnicity. What I think might be missing, though, is what is probably the most critical element in the real world, which motivates a lot of extremism even though it's rarely brought to the surface by its partisans, is the economic aspect.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there, I don't agree. Not only is extremism, in itself, bad, but the OP has taken care to show that the organisations and people can be more nuanced anyway.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There would be a difference between just being rebels and being extremists, and if the latter, they shouldn't be pure heroes. They don't have to be villains, but as extremists, their means might be more than questionable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8540341, member: 7032025"] And I thought that this was just an example for [USER=7023887]@AcererakTriple6[/USER]'s campaign, however you have good examples of actual political extremists for example in Mistborn, in the WIE and NSWIE sections. For me, it does, in the examples although I agree that the main example at the top is less political than racial in the end. Well, why don't you propose some or explain why Thanos is wrong (and which of the Thanos you are speaking about, I think it might matter) ? Why I admit that they are not purely religious/philosophical examples since they mix in other concepts, I personally find them interesting, and the mixture is actually fairly realistic since in the real world, there are usually many factors contributing to extremism, for example religion + ethnicity. What I think might be missing, though, is what is probably the most critical element in the real world, which motivates a lot of extremism even though it's rarely brought to the surface by its partisans, is the economic aspect. And there, I don't agree. Not only is extremism, in itself, bad, but the OP has taken care to show that the organisations and people can be more nuanced anyway. There would be a difference between just being rebels and being extremists, and if the latter, they shouldn't be pure heroes. They don't have to be villains, but as extremists, their means might be more than questionable. [/QUOTE]
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