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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (377)	6/5/2005 11:08:38 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541339

it's seeing (or intuitively feeling) the logic in not having all or nothing positions If that's a belief, that's suspect, too. Sometimes splitting the difference makes sense. For example, if you can cut some problem in half, it's better than not cutting it at all while you pursue some hundred percent solution that isn't politically feasible. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the middle ground produces some half-baked monstrosity that isn't effective at all or does more harm than good. So believing in the middle for it's own sake is no more rational than the ideologies it's trying to counteract. I think finding middle ground on both abortion and gun control make sense because it could mitigate the utter destructiveness of the wars over them without doing more harm than good. But that's mostly battle fatigue on my part.