Clever. No, that’s a matter of hard science. Not much room for interpretation there. But anything that’s a matter of subjective opinion, yeah, it’s almost always somewhere towards the center of the extremes.
Centrism doesn’t mean you’re taking a median view of the population. It means you’re not blindly following a left or right approach, and even more so as it approaches extreme ends of the spectrum. It means you’re listening to all relevant data to the issue at hand, and forming it into one coherent opinion, usually somewhere right of extreme left, and left of extreme right.
There are ALWAYS pros and cons to everything, even ‘obvious’ things like abolishing slavery. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous and damages your own point for the sake of being a bit more emotionally comfortable. I prefer to eschew labels, left, right, center, alt, or otherwise because it allows me to more easily assimilate information that I might otherwise disregard because “eww it’s RIGHT leaning”.
To be clear, I fall pretty far left on most topics, but not because I’m a lefty. I fall there because it makes the most sense after hearing all of the information.
so you think earth is a semi-sphere?
Clever. No, that’s a matter of hard science. Not much room for interpretation there. But anything that’s a matter of subjective opinion, yeah, it’s almost always somewhere towards the center of the extremes.
so:
the question of should it be legal to sell meth to children, the answer is yes under some conditions?
the answer to “the Jewish question” is, 3million?
how about enfranchisement? half the population? what half?
how about slavery? that was literally solved somewhere towards the center of the two extremes, and it caused a civil war.
civil rights? well, Jim-crow was a nice centrist position.
etc…
Centrism is rarely the correct answer
Centrism doesn’t mean you’re taking a median view of the population. It means you’re not blindly following a left or right approach, and even more so as it approaches extreme ends of the spectrum. It means you’re listening to all relevant data to the issue at hand, and forming it into one coherent opinion, usually somewhere right of extreme left, and left of extreme right.
There are ALWAYS pros and cons to everything, even ‘obvious’ things like abolishing slavery. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous and damages your own point for the sake of being a bit more emotionally comfortable. I prefer to eschew labels, left, right, center, alt, or otherwise because it allows me to more easily assimilate information that I might otherwise disregard because “eww it’s RIGHT leaning”.
To be clear, I fall pretty far left on most topics, but not because I’m a lefty. I fall there because it makes the most sense after hearing all of the information.