I think you make a lot of good points, and when I say the “middle” I should be more clear that I don’t mean like the arithmetic mean or something. I meant to sa

I think you make a lot of good points, and when I say the “middle” I should be more clear that I don’t mean like the arithmetic mean or something. I meant to say: “at neither of these rather extreme places”. In a weirdly meta way I think vaccination itself is a useful metaphor: personally the pro-vaccination/anti-vaxx dichotomy is itself extreme to me. Vaccination is some combination of pharmaceutical and medical procedure. It’s almost certainly the right thing at some times for some people, and almost certainly the wrong thing for other people at other times. It’s not a 1-bit problem (there are few 1-bit problems). But it seems to be something that we can’t collectively approach with as much nuance as e.g. prescription medications, which especially recently is not a decision-making process known for its demonstrable subtlety. I personally get skittish around all-or-nothing anything.