biLL, I'm not ridiculing, I'm stating a FACT.

I have nothing against passionate adherence to good causes. In fact I'm often given to it myself. BUT--it is not difficult to tell when someone is operating NOT out of any genuine concern (generally the rather spittle-spraying manner in which they express themselves and the angry way in which they respond to anyone who doesn't immediately leap on board), but for the very reasons that Eric Hoffer delineated.

The Fanatic has a tendency, not to try to persuade, but to beat people about the head and shoulders and attempt to bury them in some kind of collective guilt.

Don Firth