Extreme

Ok, so I have a serious question to pose.

Why are all arguments made with extreme parameters?

What I mean here is, why, when there are so many rational people out there, who can think for themselves and be sensible, do we all get our rage on when some extremist spouts a mouthful of idiocy into our hearing space? I am just as guilty of this as anyone else.

For example: Today I read a very well worded blog about being pro-abortion.  My problem with it is that is was, in my opinion, a rather extreme argument. The statement it made was basically that being pro safe sex, was the same as being pro abortion.  I disagree with this, and I will tell you why. Having safe sex, leads to less disease, less emotional fall out and less pregnancy. Now, before I go any further, let me define my terms (and you should all understand that I have made these definitions on my own, and that I do not follow them myself the way I should) Safe Sex, is sex between two consenting adults in a stable and long term relationship (preferably a marriage, but that is no guarantee these days). These two adults are only having sex with each other, are aware of their sexual health and are using the type of contraception that they are comfortable with.  These two adults also understand that said contraception is not 100% effective and that there is a possibility that they will create a miniature human. 

Yes, that was a long definition, but I wanted to be specific. Now here is my counter argument to the statement made by the blog. Not all sex leads to pregnancies, but all pregnancies lead to babies (even a miscarriage is a baby, it just died of natural causes).

Ok, I'm getting off track.

Moving on.

Extremists are generally loud, and in your face, and they get all their power from you responding to their drivel. So why do we keep giving them all the power?

We know that Westboro is a hate-filled extremist group, so why do we keep giving them press, instead of just quietly dealing with them?

I just don't get it. I myself am guilty of responding to an extreme argument, probably of even making one or two. But really, it makes no sense to argue this way since 90% of life is not lived in the extreme.  Responding to an extreme point of view almost always forces you to take and extreme point of you yourself, which screws up your point and makes you sound just a bigoted as the guy you were so offended by.

So maybe we should try something new. Instead of responding, we ignore. Instead of yelling/rebutting, we act.  We live our lives in a responisble way, we accept certain truths, we agree to disagree and we live in peace, showing tolerance and love and understanding. We learn patience, we do the research and make opinions based on fact as well as feeling. We embrace education, over extremism.

I dunno, I realize that it is asking a lot, although I'm not sure why asking for rational, peaceful behavior is such a hard thing.