From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   I seek the best of all possible worlds, and I have a strategy as to how to   
   accomplish this. It is through what I call the positive middle path. I don’t   
   mean just any middle path, as the middle can be found in all sorts of   
   undesirable places. I mean the    
   positive middle path, that combines what each side is right about while   
   confronting what each side is wrong about.   
      
   In conflicts such as between business and labor, or men and women, or nature   
   and civilization, neither side is good and neither side is bad. Both are   
   capable of both. Business is right to pursue prosperity and opportunity; labor   
   is right to protect    
   itself from predatory and corrupt business practices. Women have right to   
   pursue a safe life inside the home and a fulfilling life outside the home; men   
   have right to protect themselves from cruelty and nastiness by feminists. It   
   is right to pursue    
   scientific and technological progress; it is also right to protect nature from   
   blind and irreversible destruction.   
      
   Well isn’t this eating your cake and having it too? No, it is using   
   intelligence to achieve win-win scenarios. In all these cases, we are dealing   
   with powers that can go either right or wrong. In dealing with powers that can   
   either go right or wrong,    
   it is not right to take either side. It is right to see who is right and about   
   what, and to relate to the situation from that premise.   
      
   Both business and labor can be good or bad. Both men and women can be good or   
   bad. Both nature and civilization can be good or bad. Neither exists from the   
   standpoint of moral judgment. All exist from the standpoint of reality. When   
   dealing with things    
   that exist from the standpoint of reality, independent of moral judgment, the   
   solution is to see who is right and about what. And it is to empower the first   
   while confronting the second.   
      
   When that is not done, we see hideous outcomes. What we see is empowering one   
   side in all sorts of corrupt and tyrannical practices while oppressing the   
   other side even in its ability to produce good results. We see this both with   
   people who are only pro-   
   business and with people who are only pro-labor. We see this both with people   
   who are only pro-woman and with people who are only pro-man. We see this both   
   with people who are only pro-nature and with people who are only   
   pro-civilization. In all cases a    
   great wrong is done.   
      
   In all these cases, neither side is good and neither side is bad. Both are   
   capable of both. The correct solution is to see what each side is right about   
   and support it, while also seeing what each side is wrong about and   
   confronting it.   
      
   I therefore recommend a positive middle path. And that stands to lead to the   
   best world possible.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)