You've got a point there, Smokey. The absolutists are often not comfortable enough with their doctrines, to be able to be self-critical. And if humans can't be self-critical, they're in big trouble.
Leaders of organizations often have the same problem - the inability to be self-critical. Popes have had a really serious problem with this.
I just finished reading a Blackie Ryan novel by Father Andrew Greeley, a priest who is considered by some to be very critical of the Catholic Church. A fictional Chicago archbishop in the novel says that twenty percent of his colleagues have Borderline Personal Disorder (and would have been called "sociopaths" in the old days). That figure could be correct.

-Joe-