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To: epicure who wrote (386)	6/5/2005 12:13:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541354

I'm not sure I want LSD legal (for example), but I KNOW I want pot legal. Maybe if you break macro issues down into micro issues you can find a collection of active (as opposed to reactive) positions. And the sum of those could average out to be moderate.

To: epicure who wrote (386)	6/5/2005 12:32:08 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541354

While I like the constitutional right to own a gun, I don't really want mental patients to be able to run out and get one Neither does the NRA. So I think the moderate position is really far more than just "compromise"- I think it is a rational parsing of an issue to find out exactly what you want- what are the boundaries of the best solution for the most people. The problem with defining "the moderate position" that way is that some people's "rational parsing of an issue to find out exactly what you want", will result in positions that many people will find to be extreme. While it is true that many people outside the main stream of the current political culture are not rationally parsing anything (that could also be said about many people in what would be considered the mainstream), its also true that some of them do. It seems to me that you are defining moderation as being the same as being rational or sensible and I'm not sure that is how most people would define it. Tim