Sheriff? Naw - just being painfully honest ;-)
There's a lot of misinformation on the internet in every corner. Much
of it comes from extreme statements like the one you made, offering one
side of a story as seen by a specific person with a "philosophically
provincial" attitude. Yours was relatively harmless, but some is
potentially very dangerous. Each one deserves to be challenged and
analyzed lest it become the mainstream concept without adequate
consideration.
Your statement about "opposites" reveals that, at least for some
issues, you see things in a polarized light. Most things are not so
black and white (the speed of light in a gravitationally-neutral vacuum
being a notable exception), and the affairs of humans almost never. It
always pays in some way to consider that (1) one's perception is not
always correct, and (2) other points of view may be equally valid.
This, not from a person who knows everything (not by far!) but from one
who believes that little perceived by humans is absolute and that all
ideas should be examined circumspectly.
Bruce Jensen
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