It's something I've been thinking about for a while. Most logic and language is worst case. You go all in or not on a concept. Purity culture probably arose f

It's something I've been thinking about for a while. Most logic and language is worst case. You go all in or not on a concept. Purity culture probably arose from this (not just sexual, but in so many areas of life, we view the binary not as "bad vs good", but "at least once bad, e.g. polluted" versus "always good"). I mean I'm sure we heard a bunch of conflicting messages in our lives in many different areas, and we have rationalizations for why that is (oh, those guys belong to a different political group, different viewpoints, etc.), often to just save on computation power because how tf are you gonna answer these grand philosophical questions in an afternoon, much less your lifetime - it's very halting problem-esque. Nevertheless, we still make heuristics, live in the muddy waters, and live.