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    It is not the case that The good life is impossible without moderation

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    • 1.Nietzsche argues that greatness requires excess: the life-affirming will to power cannot be reduced to Aristotelian mean-seeking moderation.
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    • 2.History's most transformative moral figures—abolitionists, martyrs, saints—achieved their ends through radical, immoderate commitment, not measured discretion.
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    • 3.If moderation is a prerequisite for the good life, then lives of justified extremity are categorically excluded from goodness by definition, not by argument.
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    • 1.Consequentialist frameworks evaluate outcomes, not dispositions; a life of strategic immoderation that maximizes welfare can constitute a good life on utilitarian grounds.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates a sufficient condition (discretion producing moderation) with a necessary one, committing a formal logical error that doesn't establish indispensability.
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    • 1.Moderation consists in performing the right act in the right way and in the right situation in accordance with one's best judgment
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    • 2.No duty is properly performed without discretion as the source of moderation
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