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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Thinking everything is gray is also an uneducated response to this kind of thinking. Too many people refuse to stand up for a point because they think that 'all sides are bad' or 'well the good side isn't perfect'.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Understanding that things are nuanced is not the same thing as not having opinions.

You can acknowledge that drinking alcohol can cause addiction, act as a social lubricant, and decide if you want to drink. You can even have an opinion on what you think alcohol's role in society should be and what should be done to prevent drunk driving.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Believing that everything is nuanced, though, is absurd.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything is nuanced, it's just that some things are more or less so, and sometimes the nuance exist but is completely irrelevant.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If everything is nuanced, then "everything is nuanced" must also be nuanced. As such, not everything is nuanced.

Take your post-modernism and shove it :P

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How does that relate to post modernism? Give me some resources so I can self crit properly if I am wrong in my statement.

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