In moderation has eased itself into the lexicon of all polite conversation when your trying to get someone to stop doing a bad thing, but you don’t want to scare them with the prospect of totally stopping yet.
- Drinking… in moderation
- Smoking… in moderation
- Recreational Drugs… in moderation
Or when it comes from people in authority it just means “I’m not ready to have this fight, so I’ll just say in moderation as a catch all so you wont get mad at me”
Your only using extreme examples that are obviously harmful behaviours.
Some better examples are eating eggs in moderation, exercising in moderation etc.
I didn’t realize people had bad egg habits, outside of
some people
Good point! Someone trying to get back into health can overdo it, i see that.