When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
The authoritarian left is bad
The authoritarian right is bad
But if you think that the two are equally bad, then you’re wronger than wrong
Good thing I didn’t say that.
Too bad you missed when I called both “bad”
Two things can both be indefensible, and yet still one is preferable. Although you lead with “and”, you seem to be suggesting that this isn’t the case, which is a wild position that doesn’t hold up to even that barest of scrutiny.
You can rank a list of things by preference, even if it contains more than 2 items and multiple items are bad.
Let me give you an example:
Give an innocent child a candy
Run over an innocent child’s foot
Blow up an innocent child with C4
2 of those options are bad and indefensible, but between the bad options, one is certainly worse.
Come back to me when you have an argument that stands up to a light breeze, your “all bad things are equally bad” routine is the kind of nonsense that allows monsters to come into power.
The authoritarian left is bad
The authoritarian right is bad
But if you think that the two are equally bad, then you’re wronger than wrong
And if you think that makes either defendable you’ve lost the plot.
Good thing I didn’t say that.
Too bad you missed when I called both “bad”
Two things can both be indefensible, and yet still one is preferable. Although you lead with “and”, you seem to be suggesting that this isn’t the case, which is a wild position that doesn’t hold up to even that barest of scrutiny.
Both are bad, neither is preferable. The world is not binary, you have other options.
Guess what?
You can rank a list of things by preference, even if it contains more than 2 items and multiple items are bad.
Let me give you an example:
2 of those options are bad and indefensible, but between the bad options, one is certainly worse.
Come back to me when you have an argument that stands up to a light breeze, your “all bad things are equally bad” routine is the kind of nonsense that allows monsters to come into power.
Right so you go with 1.
You don’t go with left fash/2 or right fash/3, those are out of the question.
That’s such a cool story.
Too bad this isn’t a discussion about that option. We’re discussing the difference between option 2 and option 3, or the lack thereof.
Dude, wtf man. This isn’t complicated, I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time of it.