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	<title>Comments on: DISSENT: OUR OWN PRIVATE IDAHOS</title>
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	<description>Only the most inreasonable ideas...</description>
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		<title>By: Bill Goodwin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description>You are right to point out that the internet permits a multitude of sins, and that extremism in behavior includes more than merely the political. Such behaviors, however, pose significantly different challenges from the problem of purely political extremism (and the alleged devastating effects on civic life). 

Moreover, while the means to the end may be the same, the internet, I don&#039;t believe that the freedom to indulge in wrongful behavior by virtue of secrecy -- illustrated in your dissent by child pornographers and terrorists -- analogizes well to political partisanship. Among other reasons, the ill effects cited by echo chamber critics focus explicitly on the &lt;i&gt;public&lt;/i&gt; effect of such polarization. Insofar as a personal is privately extreme, but apparently moderate in their public life, the problem, as I originally posited it, doesn&#039;t really exist. The same cannot be said for your two examples, rendering them, at best, inapt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are right to point out that the internet permits a multitude of sins, and that extremism in behavior includes more than merely the political. Such behaviors, however, pose significantly different challenges from the problem of purely political extremism (and the alleged devastating effects on civic life). </p>
<p>Moreover, while the means to the end may be the same, the internet, I don&#8217;t believe that the freedom to indulge in wrongful behavior by virtue of secrecy &#8212; illustrated in your dissent by child pornographers and terrorists &#8212; analogizes well to political partisanship. Among other reasons, the ill effects cited by echo chamber critics focus explicitly on the <i>public</i> effect of such polarization. Insofar as a personal is privately extreme, but apparently moderate in their public life, the problem, as I originally posited it, doesn&#8217;t really exist. The same cannot be said for your two examples, rendering them, at best, inapt.</p>
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