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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7841432" data-attributes="member: 4937">It's the same thing with one exception. Companies are risk adverse (for good reason). It's easy for a small but vocal group to create a Styrofoam iceberg - you think the 10% you can see is indicative of the 90% you can't, but really you can see 90% and only 10% is below the surface.The exception is that with a religion like Christianity or Islam or Buddhism you are dealing with a belief system that has been more or less stable for centuries if not millennia. It's usually pretty predictable what is going to upset people from those groups, and it's usually pretty predictable what you can do to calm things down. One nifty advantage dealing with fundamentalists is that they do have to adhere to their text. You have a minimal set of things that they are forced to agree with that can be a basis for common understanding.But when you are dealing with a brand new Puritanical sect the problem you have is that their beliefs are changing almost yearly, so that if you went back 10, 20, or 30 years ago the sort of things that they approved of or disapproved of were and are completely different than what they approve and disapprove of now. So you really have no way of knowing how to keep them happy, as what would be received as admirable and good now, gets you scorned as a heretic next year.</blockquote>