In regards to eating meat

[thefool]

You guys need to chill and not take it personally when I call your opinions extreme.

The difference between offering intellectual commentary about opinions, vs. judging someone personally, is that little word you.

extremism of any kind leads to elitism and elitism leads to STS tendencies...There are a lot of great causes in the world but you take it too far and you fall in the STS trap

That you is not directed at you or any one single person. That is just my writing style and I might have done it hundreds of times in other places as well... You are reading too much on a personal level in that general statement. But the statement still stands when we take something too far, it leads to these things...

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The term extreme is subjective. Extreme fitness has a connotation of dedication, adventurousness, and hard work. Extremist is more commonly used to refer to those who use violence to achieve their ends. Thank you for clarifying you view of the term extreme. I hope you can see how that came across, when Marxists, Communists, and Crusaders were used in the next sentence to illustrate the point, rather than cycling and mountain climbing.

Extreme is a very subjective term. What cyclists and mountain climbers do on a personal level the crusaders do on a social level. So it depends upon how the extreme tendencies are applied. If you apply it to yourself (corrected to ourselves) you become perfectionist and if you (corrected to we) apply it to others it becomes a control thing...