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“Some people say light is waves, and some say it’s particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that’s both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?” “YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN’T BE!”
As a middle ground kind of guy, I would like to pre-emptively state that a lot of us don’t actually think the answer is always the middle ground between two stances. It’s just that we’re more likely to propose a middle ground solution because we evaluate the plausibility of both stances in a more balanced way (as opposed to existing-stance-holders who are prone to bias towards their own stance.) When the two seem roughly equal in plausibility (which happens fairly often, otherwise the argument would be more one-sided,) that’s an indication to evaluate the middle ground as well.
Middle ground folks are often caricaturized as wanting to find the middle ground between an objectively sensible point A and a radically wrong point B, when the spectrum of opinions is sort of like [ - - - - - A - | - - - - - - B ]. In that caricature, we’re looking for a middle ground at point C [ - - - - - A - | - - C - - - B ], when in actuality we’re evaluating (and not automatically accepting) something two or three steps closer to A. In some such cases, A might already be the most sensible middle ground.
In an n-dimensional problem space, the probability of the truth lying anywhere on a line between point A and point B is infinitessimally small.
I’m actually not as neutral as I may seem. There are quite a few cases where I hold more extreme opinions, but as a general trend, I average somewhere around the middle.
I don’t know. But if I die, tell me wife I said hello.
Middle of the ground people are mostly cowards too scared of conflict, or devoid of insight.
Maybe there’s a middle ground between our two views.
Why are you so scared of conflict?
I’m not scared of conflict, I’m averse to needless conflict. I may get involved in a conflict for the purpose of breaking it up, or I may initiate a conflict for a good cause such as combating hatred and averting future conflicts - if I feel it’d be productive.
Great reply but… I was being facetious; making fun of the guy you were replying to 😁
I figured.
Middle implies middle. If you are leaning towards a side, then you’re side-leaning. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, centrist, that’s what everyone makes fun of ya’ll for.
It’s “somewhere in the middle”. You are putting to much emphasis on “middle” and not enough of “somewhere”.
Somewhere in the middle means there’s a middle and side-leaning, yes.
This is why people hate pedants. You’re technically correct, it’s just a useless distinction that only exists to make you feel better.
That’s exactly how I feel about centrists. Curious.
You seem nice.
It’s hilarious he had to make us a little drawing making up his own scale that fits this narrative.
It’s an abstraction of a caricature I’ve seen. Point A was civil rights, point B was the KKK, and the middle ground guy was like “what if we only kill half of Black people?”