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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by anigbrowl on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:34PM (#31866277)
By no means am I arguing that those at the extremes are always right. I'm saying that if you have no other principles than 'compromise' then you will simply let yourself be pulled around by the most powerful force in a go-along-to-get-along fashion.

Moderates are simply conflict averse and don't consider that there is anything worth fighting for, ever. Unscrupulous extremists rely on them as a strategic buffer, because they are easy to manipulate. Neville Chamberlain was a moderate.

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by mancerayder on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:08PM (#31870649)
"conflict averse" and "easy to manipulate" are personality traits. Pretty subjective and not useful for (adult) discourse. There's a way to think of political "moderates" as a political science category. An example of a moderate position would be, supporting a free market economy but a wide social security system. An example of the other (economic) extremes are laissez-faire and socialism.

You're successfully proving my point from the comment above: you're painting folks who don't share your views. This does you a disservice as you can't possibly understand the arguments. There are many, many ways in which a person can be a Moderate or a particular topic can have a moderate viewpoint.

The cure for this affliction (of imagining your opponents and creating personifications in your head) is to diversify your conversational and reading sources.

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by anigbrowl on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:30PM (#31872320)
"conflict averse" and "easy to manipulate" are personality traits. Pretty subjective and not useful for (adult) discourse.

Nice attempt at well-poisoning. You'll excuse me if I don't engage with the sophistry that follows.

Perhaps it's you who should broaden your reading sources, as people's behavior is much more amenable to objective analysis than you seem to be aware of. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by mancerayder on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:43PM (#31876691)
You don't have to go very far for some links that echo what I said above:

"Moderate is an ideological category which designates a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion.[1][2] A moderate is considered someone occupying any mainstream position avoiding extreme views and major social change. In United States politics, a moderate is considered someone occupying a centre position on the left–right political spectrum."

Very uncontroversial take by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_moderate

The pinning of subjective elements and personality traits to your political opponents is as dangerous as it is unscientific (and people both on the right and the left do this).