Thursday, August 17, 2017

Centrism

Centrism isn't a position so much as it is the ability to take an average between other people's positions, no matter how disparate. It's a cop-out non-position which has no moral test. Where's the middle point between "Hitler was right and inferiors must be eradicated" and "Hitler was wrong and all people have human dignity"? I'll tell you what that middle point is: wrong!

Sometimes, two ideas are utterly incompatible. Sometimes, the middle ground between two incompatible ideas functionally does not exist; any refusal to completely reject one pole is an endorsement of it. Sometimes only total rejection is a moral response. Pick a side.

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