Saturday, 26 April 2014

Issue Essay 4: Is moderation in all things poor advice?

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

The above statement seems convincing at first, but a deep understanding of it results in denial of the statement that the moderation in all the things is not a poor advice.

Moderation is something which is widely accepted. It actually creates enough room for acceptance of much diverse point of views. I disagree with the statement that the moderation in all things is a poor advice. Many of the examples we observe in our daily lives, which obey the principle of moderation and thus they pose a satisfactory impact. Take example of the eating, over eating is harmful for our health; moreover a moderate intake of food is helpful. Moderate intake of food keeps us active all the time conversely over eating engenders sleep and clumsiness.

Another example which I would mention in support of my point of view is that of drug addiction. Drug addiction causes several diseases if it is taken at a large scale. However if it is taken at a moderate level it does not cause harm to the body. Thus you can stay healthy.

Any of the extreme reaction of parents to their children will cause the children to find illegal paths in order to get rid of parent’s behavior. If children are treated in a moderate way. They can have good moral lessons.
I highly agree that as long as we perform moderation in many things, the results are satisfactory. Here I mention the GRE examination. If you are too much tensed about the exam, you will not be able to perform better, conversely if you are easy and relaxed the probability of performing better in the exam is higher. This way you can score well in your exam. Thus both over excitement and over tense result in bad score of your exam.

Being moderate in what we do in our daily lives has very big impact. As we see on different roads and traffic signals to keep our pace of vehicle moderate. The over speed of your car can cause danger to your life and the life of the others. However if you keep a moderate speed it would result safety of lives. Additionally, while arguing on some point state with your friend of college if you give a moderate point of view it will give a good impact. However an aggressive and extreme may cause bad result on your relation.

There is an exception to the above statement. In case of your rights, being moderate less probability of getting your rights. Therefore in this case you need not to be moderate. Because the more moderate and quiet you will be, the more you will be neglected. Moreover there are some areas in which moderation would lead to less chances of success. For example an athlete who is interested in many of the games and sports gets involved many of them, and do not focus on one of them. He would fail to give proper attention to each of them and he will lose competition. In such a case moderation would not be feasible to have better results.


In a nutshell, moderation in many of the aspects can make things easy. Therefore I would highly recommend adopting this policy, to overcome many things except for some cases of competitiveness and accomplishments in which you need to focus on one thing and moderation proves to be poor advice.

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