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### Prerequisites
- brain
- eyes (not needed if you're using TTS)
- eyes (not needed if you're using [TTS](tts.md), but then you will need ears)
### Where To Go Next
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## Moderacy (Middle Way) Vs Extremism
An important issue of many ideologies/philosophies/religions/etc. has shown to be striking the right balance between moderacy and extremism. Let's sum up the two stances:
An important issue of many ideologies/philosophies/religions/etc., or perhaps rather a challenge for their followers, has shown to be striking the right balance between moderacy and extremism. Let's sum up the two stances:
- **extremism**: Being extreme in applying the ideas and principles, holding to one's ideals extremely strongly, many times resulting in blind orthodoxy, [shortcut thinking](shortcut_thinking.md), blindly following rules and commandments such as "I must never do X", "X implies Y" etc. Extremism is not bad per se, in fact it is many times preferred, advised and necessary, however one has to be aware of the dangers. It may lead to becoming a brainwashed religion follower whose pursuit of perfectionism and purism result in more bad than good.
- **moderacy**: Being moderate, holding to ideals only loosely, sometimes leading to pragmatism, "ends justify the means", hypocrisy, conveniently modifying rules on the go etc. Moderacy is also not bad as such, but also comes with many dangers. It may lead to becoming an immoral self-centered sheep conformist and even practically abandoning one's ideals, giving up ([everyone does it](everyone_does_it.md), "Yeah I don't really like capitalism, but that's how it is so I'll just play along for now."), lying to oneself ("I do so much good by setting an Ukrainian flag as my facebook profile picture!").