I don’t know about moderation but optimization is the mother of all evil. All extremists are actually optimization agents. Let one run for too long and you greatly loose on everything.

So I don’t think that we should meet a middle ground necessarily but wary of people that are trying to maxxx something.

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atoav 3 days ago | parent [-]

Just be wary that you might not like the middle ground between a serial killer and someone wbo insists all human life is sacred.

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mrtksn 3 days ago | parent [-]

There’s no middle ground, just that the serial killers and the people who insist that all human life is sacred are both destructive assuming that the sacred lifers take it to the extreme(i.e. try to force all resources and politics into saving all life whatever it takes).

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ffsm8 3 days ago | parent [-]

An imo even better example is death penalty.

Some people are not redeemable. Abolishing the death penalty is a mistake.

Another even less controversial example is providing adults and elderly euthanasia under certain circumstances.

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		>Some people are not redeemable. I agree entirely. >Abolishing the death penalty is a mistake. Unless we can devise a method of perfectly determining guilt, there will always be some false convictions. Personally, I’m not comfortable with executing innocent people. If that means keeping irredeemable killers alive in prison, I’m ok with that.
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