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 :Thank you for your reply. First: as for your words: ""From your comments, I take it that you see ""evil"" as some distant and exotic, terrible thing, of which we should all be aware yet never expect actually to see."" How on earth you can draw such a conclusion! I actually thought the opposite was rather obvious: it is exactly because I have observed/seen what I (and others!) without hesitation would term ""evil"" at  far too close a quarter that I react so immensly strongly to your ""casual"" (yes! casual, IMO) use of the word. I will not go into details (& you don´t want to know...) ..but I consider it pure luck/chance that I´m alive today. That´s what I (& others who do know the details) call evil. Things that were done on purpose -by other human beeing(s). I had one feeling (besides anger) when I read your user-page, and that was that this must be written by a very young person indeed, who had not seen much of life (?) ..or perhaps just by a very ""lucky"" person (who had not seen much of life..).  I repeat: you cannot just choose to ""log out"" when you encounter real evil, and I actually hope you never, never learn that the hard way (like I did). 
 :Now to another of your points (as I understand it): wording ""matters"" (to put it very simply). I agree. And yes, I have noted that e.g. people behind ""Radio Rwanda"" (as I think it was popularly known) were found guilty of genocide. (And quite correctly too, IMO). Because of their words -broadcasted. Only ""words"".  So of course words here matter...besides wich some of the real double-standard and nastiness is quite..well, I out of words for the moment. But Marsden: Wiikipedia isn´t Radio Rwanda!!! (Not yet, anyway...:-)) (Actually, some places in Africa that is the biggest insult imaginable: calling a newspaper/tv/radio/media-outlet for ""Radio Rwanda""...) 
 :Finally,  You say that you are ""happy to indulge in any amount of extremism if doing so can help in even the smallest way to prevent something that even you might recognize as ""real evil."""" (Sure. ""Indulge""(!))  But that is the point; what do you think you are achieving?? I think Saxet said something of the same: now you only provoke and alienate people you could ""potentially"" work with. That is the only thing you achieve. You certainly do not win anybody over to your side with your words. (I nearly didn´t vote on the Talk:Territories_under_Israeli_control due to it! Yes, I know that was a very, very, very silly and stupid reaction from me...but that was my ""gut reaction"". ) Now, I feel you are using such ""extremist"" words for your own good. Only. It feels good to write it, right? Think about it. Seriously. You achieve nothing pos. with it. Regards, Huldra 
 :PS: Also your ""hints"" that some are payed to write here: it might be true, it might not be true. But remember that some of us, (including yours truly!) do not need a wage income and spend their whole day (and sometimes night!) working for NGOs and/or projects like Wikipedia....  (I really have to log out now, don´t expect me back the next 24 hours.) Take care, and take a look over at Talk:Jewish_Defense_League ..its ""Deja vu all over again""! LOL!...should we warn poor ""Stone""?...nah...heck, does Wikipedia need a Chinese speaker.....(?)"