I'm just going to keep the question simple.

Which do you personal find more appealing, the pursuit of moral perfection or the pursuit of absolute balance?

Woops, ment for this to be in Zen.

Are you sure?

Balance would be my choice, a bit like in "tao te ching" (balance would be like tao and moral perfection like te)

You call that simple????

What do you mean by absolute balance? Balance between what?

No pursuit. No being trapped in any 'either/or' situation. No duality.

not before, nor after..
..not up, nor down..
..not right, nor left..
..not past, nor future..
..und so weiter

Oh sorry, I wasn't implying that the question itself was simple. I was originaly going to write about three paragraphs; but, decided to keep it to one sentence.

Isn't absolute balance perfect?

those are the only choices? since I don't believe in absolutes or perfection....how about 'moral balance' as my answer.

As close as humanly possible to moral perfection is exactly that; human, whereas absolute balance goes beyond...
...or something

Stealing something from Daily Zen:

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being lucky or unlucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally how we choose. We walk, and our religion is shown (even to the dullest and most insensitive person), in how we walk. Living in this world means choosing and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself.

R.H. Blyth