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> If you go back far enough, just about everyone's a descendant of someone who's been wronged by a government, and just about everyone's [3] a descendant of som
by thebooktocome 3y ago
> If you go back far enough, just about everyone's a descendant of someone who's been wronged by a government, and just about everyone's [3] a descendant of someone who has blood on their hands as a participant in those wrongs.
This is the fallacy of gray.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallacy-of-gray https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac...
“Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view . . .”