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I would say ideologies with the highest R0 values are the most dangerous. Christianity have almost identical R0 values, for virtually the same exact reasons.

They both are very attractive to the lowest common denominators. They both attempt to artificially level their respective playing fields. This appeals to people below the median line, and there are always more people below the median line than above it so this broad based appeal for a "free lunch" spreads like wildfire.

The Romans were confronted with this 1700 years ago and felt like they had to do something about it to control or 'own' it, thus the Nicene Creed., possibly the most dangerous ideology ever (a wolf in sheep's clothing).

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Which ideologies do you think are the most dangerous? And is their danger a good or bad thing?

Which are most harmful?

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You've done an excellent job of proving my point for me. Ideologies always devolve. In this case, the Marxist principle of financial inequity has metastasized to include virtually every spectrum imaginable. Not only wealth equity, but gender equity, racial equity, sexual preference equity, physical equity, social equity and so on.

Equity (leveling the playing field) can only happen when you do two things. You provide false positives to people below average (such as yourself) and give false negatives to those people above average.

Equity (equality of outcome) hurts everybody. Neuroscientists have known this for decades. Dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and other neurotransmitters are produced in the brain to regulate healthy risk-reward scenarios, which have a significant effect on motivation and learning.

This new form of Marxism is pure poison and has produced generations of people who are severely learning disordered. Some might even say retarded (case in point, your poorly written comment).

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