As Gandhi said, "When you are right, you cannot be too radical."
and what is right? one can't claim to have the right answer on everything, that would just be ignorant. world politics are not binary.
You can't progress as a moderate. Moderates tread water. No philosopher, or great thinker, or great mind has ever been a moderate, and about 1% have been right-wing.
a society of perfect equilibrium threads water. anything else has different progression within scientific fields. but do we want a new fascist/communist regime to help us develop new technologies? if there was a chance that immortality could be researched within the next 30-50 years if we gave up our freedom, would that really matter? the population would just be slaves for the elite then, and its the elite who would be the ones to reap the fruits of such technology.
is it just me or does any thread in these forums become a bit of left vs right quite fast? its a bit like a billboard for "look at me, i got the true answer" kinda thing. a bit like religion so to speak
this thread originally was what would happen if iran nuked israel... iran would basically be nuked to the stone age quite quickly, and i dunno what the rest of the international society would do about it. china and russia might be pissed, but they can't disagree with the fact that iran shot first, and if they did kill alot of Israelis, then its an Eye for an Eye as usual...