Extreme torture, sexual violence, slave labor, starvation and execution are commonplace.
In an effort to highlight his more extreme views, Grayson, no slave to the concept of subtlety, has dubbed his opponent "Taliban Dan" in a recently released ad.
Extreme specialists among these slave-raiding ants, such as the Amazon ants, are incapable of feeding themselves and need captured workers to survive.
By assessing incidents of human trafficking or slavery, national laws, and the quality of law enforcement across 198 countries, risk analytics company Verisk Maplecroft found that 115 countries were at high or extreme risk of using slaves.
Fathering a child with a slave is pretty extreme, too, but then we all remember what Karl Rove et al. did to John McCain in South Carolina, with the push-polling phone campaign suggesting he had fathered a "colored" baby out of wedlock.
In the most extreme cases, people descended from slaves are treated as objects and their children do not belong to them but to their "masters".
Though the slave is perhaps the extreme case, many people, it seems, fail to recognize the full range of possibilities open to them.
At one extreme, among the Tuareg of North Africa, the slave owners themselves often lived badly, and so, of course, did their slaves.
Therefore, as the South Carolina Methodist Conference declared before the war, masters sinned against their slaves by "excessive labor, extreme punishment, withholding necessary food and clothing, neglect in sickness or old age, and the like".
Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," an extremely bloody, extremely funny revenge fantasy about a former slave in the antebellum South, has stirred up a hornet's nest because of its extreme violence and inflammatory language.
