“Grim” has some thoughts.

Which is the extreme position: to think that people should be able to put substances into their own body without government interference, or that people should be imprisoned for ingesting smoke from burning leaves?

Is it really “extreme” to think one religion inferior to another? I’m not a member of either one, but if one religion really does preach peace and turning the other cheek, and another believes that all non-adherents to it should die, who really doesn’t believe that the former is superior to the latter? This kind of loony moral relativism is what I find extreme, and not in a good way.

In any event, like Glenn Reynolds, I consider myself an extremist, but an eclectic one. And like Barry Goldwater, I don’t think that’s necessarily a vice.