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The notion that every concept has to be on a left-right line, with everyone falling exactly one place on the line and all reasoning being a debate between one side or the other... is some serious bullshit once you stop and think about it
Our educational system, our media, our entire society wants to push every single goddamn thing under the sun into this continuum. Except that almost no actual issue works that way; and people's ideas don't even work this way. The only thing this represents now is a rough divide of some forms of schools of thought. Not even philosophies, just groups of people who use mob behavior and group-think to decide how they should describe the world and its problems, that's our continuum.
Should we use that to decide on anything in the world?
I fail to buy into the author's worship of this continuum, and as a result I just want to kick him squarely in the nuts. Yawn, another Vox article that "explains" how if you are very smart you will agree with the author.
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