Wouter,

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:12:16 +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>...
> Some people say that the opposites meet at the extreme ends of the
> spectrum. I think there is a lot of truth in that opinion.

Yes, I did, a couple of minutes later... :-)

> There are also many more distinctions than right and left, for instance
> religious versus secular. 

And libertarian versus authoritarian, mono- versus multi-cultural, and so on.  The Left/Right thing is just ridiculously simplistic, and produced fallacies 
like "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", which when used as part of foreign policy is downright dangerous!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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