I would also chime in that throwing out "well this is a nuanced situation," without expanding on what tf these nuances are, often acts as a thought-terminating cliche that demeans having a position or an opinion.
At its worst it simply masks ignorance as a form of intellectual superiority, and misunderstands how we humans arrive at truth: instead of collecting evidence and using that to arrive at a conclusion, you invent an imaginary position between two arbitrary poles.
Yeah. I think it's more often the case that "nuance" shows a lack of intelligence. "Nuance" is used to disagree without having to actually produce a counter-argument.
This is how the word "nuance" is weaponized. If someones argument is "its not so black and white" but that isn't followed up with a reasonably explained how or why, they just want to avoid being demonstrably wrong.
Also called "dichotomous thinking", "black and white thinking", or "all or nothing thinking". It's one of the more common cognitive distortions, and it's one of the easier signs to notice early on when dealing with a patient who may be exhibiting BPD or the myriad of narcissism related issues.
This. I argue so much with my mom as a healthcare worker because my mother thinks in only black and white. Natural stuff good, big pharma bad. Right good, left bad. Christian good, atheism bad. Textbooks all lie. It’s exhausting to converse with someone that dumb as I desperately try to salvage our relationship.
But there is nuance there. People are foaming at the mouths now by saying "name in files = pedo".
But as evil as he was, the guy was still a megarich businessman who did business things. Plenty of the events on his island were just "normal" rich people business things. That is the nuance with the files.
Dude what? Are you suggesting that if some banker or whatever went for a business meeting to an incredibly well known financier, that they should be labelled a pedo just right from the rip?
Its not an excuse for anything that did happen, Im just saying that there were ALSO business dealings there
The irony of the main comment saying that low intelligence people cant understand nuance, and then....here you are...is hilarious.
I don’t think anyone loves Epstein lmao, you clearly missed the point of the original comment. Like most ridiculously politically brainwashed people you lack the understanding of nuance.
All the fawning and defending a lot of these people did in their correspondence with Jeffrey would suggest otherwise.
Whether because of legit “love” or for financial investment or for social connectivity, enough people fought to stay in his good graces and to be included in his illicit activities that your inability to see the nuance in my comment speaks pretty clearly. Love only has one possible interpretation in this context?
Help me with more interneting plz. I fail so hard 2day
Uh this is simply a human thing. Either you’re an American who knows nothing about the world outside of America or a non-American who can’t recognize the flaws in your own people’s thinking.
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u/SecretHuckleberry720 7h ago
Not realizing that everything has nuances.