A demonstration of the gray fallacy. The opinions of Ariel Castro are not equidistant from the truth with those of the rest of society, and we don’t find the truth by finding a middle ground between his claims and those of everybody else.
I don’t know how this happened. My comment was supposed to be a reply to:
When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, “At least the handle is one of us.
Ah. I read that one as a reference to the tendency to let tribal affiliation trump realistic evaluation of outcomes.
A demonstration of the gray fallacy. The opinions of Ariel Castro are not equidistant from the truth with those of the rest of society, and we don’t find the truth by finding a middle ground between his claims and those of everybody else.
I don’t know how this happened. My comment was supposed to be a reply to:
Ah. I read that one as a reference to the tendency to let tribal affiliation trump realistic evaluation of outcomes.