Here's the part that I really can't understand - Why are we, as humans, polarized?

I'm simply taking the middle path between every extreme because, well, I'm mediocre, er, moderate, er, middle-of-the-road. You know, wishy-washy... I'm as opposed to the outliers as they are to me, and probably more so, as I believe I have natural, mathematical laws on my side here!

By the law of averages, shouldn't our positions on most things be more bell shaped and less polarized?

Then again, perhaps the outliers are actually afraid of us in some way - a perfect sub who knows how to hurt people probably just doesn't sit well with some sensibilities. Somewhere in the back of their mind they realize that they aren't playing with a real doormat, but something with teeth.

Now, my owner thinks it's cool. He thinks I should be able to defend my own honor in case any man might be foolish enough to touch his property. And, the man is absolutely dead serious about it.

I, and anyone who accompanies me anywhere, must be willing to fight tooth and nail to protect his wife.

TONS of rules about where I can go, when, with whom, and how well armed I'm expected to be. Rarely, I can get by with my "necklace," a single knuckle on a spiked bar - a toy somewhere between a roll of quarters, a steel shank, and brass knuckles. Thats, like, a jog or something - walking distance. Usually, I go with him, and he's armed to the teeth in addition to being a grizzly. When I go off the farm with someone else, I have a toter's permit and a .22 that folds up into a "phone."

gotta run, my bear calls....