When we hear about extremism or extremists, what comes to our mind is an ideology or a human being with an ideology that is not tolerant of an opposing ideology.
It is very natural for ideologies to present themselves as the “absolute truth”. However, each ideology has several underlying assumptions, which can not be validated in a commonly acceptable fashion. Hence, we realize that even though an ideology may present itself, or being presented by its advocates or being regarded by people as the “absolute truth”, it may not actually be the “absolute truth”. Moreover, every ideology by itself has some level of tolerance for opposing ideologies.
However, there are always certain advocates of an ideology who will be leaning over to the extreme side of an ideology, which may lead them to have zero tolerance for an opposing ideology. This phenomenon is to be analyzed in order to understand the disastrous consequences of the extremism on human lives.
It is widely believed that extremism is an anti-human platform utilized by some of the weak advocates of an ideology in order to avoid the difficult questions, from the opposing ideologues and explorers. As a result, since there is lack of knowledge to answer those difficult questions which maybe targeting the underlying assumptions of the ideology and undermine the “absolute truth” image of the ideology, extremism is one of the attractive platforms for them to comfortably condemn the opposing ideologues and explorers.
Going by the law of nature, that every action has a reaction, then there is no doubt that extremism breeds extremism, which is a prime factor to undermine the essence of humanity to explore and advance.
Moreover, extremism is also a major obstacle for human interaction which is a highly needed phenomenon for humanity to live in a peaceful environment. Hence, extremism will ultimately lead to a dysfunctional and backward human society filled with hatred, violence and war. A human society with such characteristics is doomed to elimination from the face of the earth.
Hence, our primary human duty is to get further away as much as we can from extremism and move towards moderation in our beliefs and actions as an individual, group, organization and a country in order to eliminate the conditions for misery and allow humanity to advance towards its ultimate purpose of heaven on earth!
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