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> 8. In nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.

This rings true in politics as well.

Isn't a Pareto optimal solution always at the edge of the feasible space?

Yet, it is usually in middel of the repsective dimensions, not on the extreme ends of either.

More succinctly stated as "Only the Sith deal in absolutes."