“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.” OpportunityGoalOffersActivityNormalConsequenceIdealsComplexesExtremesTerrorismAccidentsVulnerabilityDestructiveExpensesRealisticCynicalExploitationMinimumInterferenceDisruptionPromptsSusceptibleComplex SystemsRealistic Goals Author:Jurgen Habermas
“However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.” MenMayEvilForgetVirtuePathMiddleMoralityConsequenceExtremesBeneficialImmoralityTwo ExtremesMiddle Path Book:The Limits of State Action Source: The Limits of State Action
“People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.” PeopleKnowsSeemsAgeResponsibilityGreaterDegreesConsequenceExtremesCriminalsTeenagerAdulthoodDecreaseParental Author:John Scott
“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.” PeopleMenFirstsFactsEarthUsedWhiteWrittenFeetMankindBehaviorConsequenceConcernFunctionEnvironmentalExtremesContactBoatIndianWhite ManEldersFirst Contact Author:Leonard Peltier
“For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.” SituationPathViolenceTypeConsequenceStonesExtremesVulnerableThrownPablo EscobarConsequences Of Violence Author:Juan Pablo Escobar