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New word: Postelism or Robustism — something comfortingly reciprocal/balanced, often but not always in the form, “be conservative in x and liberal in y.”

E.g. “Be conservative in your breaking, be liberal in your stopping distance.”

E.g. “Be conservative in your use of language, be liberal in your reading and acceptance of new terms.”

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