Thursday, April 18, 2013

Argument from Moderation

I'm not sure I'd heard it called that before, but I've sure encountered it a lot. Wikipedia describes the argument from moderation as:

an informal fallacy which asserts that the truth can be found as a compromise between two opposite positions.
Consider: Did O.J. kill his wife? Let's not argue the point, but let's agree the answer is not: kind of.

It seems the truth
does not always fall
between extremes.

2 comments:

W.C. Varones said...

Infuriating.

Moderates are who got us in the mess we're in today.

John Enright said...

I can't argue with that.