And lo on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:49:33 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> 
 

did spake, saying:

> Warp wrote:
>
>>   I have always wondered why humanity likes extremes so much.
>
> I guess because seeing the world in black and white is easier than  

> reasoning about shades of grey? It's the only reason I can think of...


On that note I recall reading somewhere a suggestion that it's caused by
  

us thinking in binary - If A = Good then !A = Bad; such that if we'v
e been  

doing A a lot because we think it's good and it turns out not to be we  

automatically turn to !A, because now that must be good :-)

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Phil Cook

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