I can’t think of an answer, haha. Great question @Jordan!
Apathy and Extremism are on opposite sides of a scale in which moderation is the center. I think they are equally noxious depending on the situation. If ‘extremism’ is confined to religious extremism, then I would vote for it as the most destructive… but couldn’t Don Quixote, Thoreau, and Rosa Parks be considered extremists. Extremism can lead to great good and great destruction, apathy is only capable of negative action.
So, it’s kind of like asking… in a log cabin without electricity, what is a greater threat to comfort; fire or wood? (fire uses the wood to keep the cabin warm, but also has the potential to burn the cabin down. Comfort requires a moderate amount of fire; too much and we burn to death, too little we freeze.) Haha… this is the worst analogy ever made.
Someone please say something more intelligent than me.
