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[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So someone willing to kill in the name of an ideology is an extremist, but that's the easy extreme case. In general in modern democracies, no politician would admit to that, so the definition is rather relative to how far the political positions of a party are from the average of the last governing parties for a specific country.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So someone willing to kill in the name of an ideology is an extremist

So you're highlighting the fact that extremists will kill people in the name of their ideology, and you define extremists as people who will to kill for their ideology. Sounds pretty tautological no?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're confusing tautology with just writing the same definition in two different orders.
A square has four sides of equal length. Four sides of equal length length make a square. That's not a tautology.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, so you're highlighting the fact that a square has four sides of equal length. Seems rather pointless, no?