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  • Well, scrapers probably would ignore it.

    Maybe, I wouldn’t doubt it, if true. We live in the age of “ask for forgiveness and not permission”. But the law is the law, and forgiveness may cost them some $$$ down the road. At the very least it leaves them exposed vis-a-vis ‘Safe Harbor’ laws-wise, when some other powerful entity wants to go to war with them.

    In either case, I’m not going to give up my rights just because currently laws are not enforced. Like most things with humans, things move back-and-forth throughout time, and what may be overlooked today may be scrutinized thoroughly tomorrow.

    (And for the record, you’re the bazillionish person to tell me that. The repetition is real.)

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  • But only in a kind of theoretical sense. They think the status quo is best for everyone, but it’s really only best for them.

    You’ll have to elaborate/defend that statement. I think you’re just imposing your own perspective/worldview without facts in evidence.

    What is a more centrist sentiment than “our system may not be perfect, but it’s the best there is”?

    That would be said by Leftists about a Leftist-bias system, or Rightists about a Rightist-bias system. What you described is not just in the domain of the Centrist. There are many “systems” that groups of humans gather around, and each system may look very different from other systems.

    See Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” for an eloquent condemnation of “moderates”.

    I have not read this, so apologies if I get this wrong, but I will judge this sentence based on the overall message of your comment reply.

    Being a moderate does not mean settling for whatever no matter what, no matter how harmful it is. Its about trying to have a consensus that most/all can live with, in how we run our society and how we act towards each other.

    For example, if everybody agreed on Leftism, then should the middle of the Leftism population be condemmed (as they would now be the Centrists of Leftism)? Or Centrists of Rightism?

    If human history teaches us anything, governing from the fridge/edges never works out well for everybody else.

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