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False Compromise
There’s an idea going around that if you have a disagreement with someone, it’s best to accept a middle ground. This is only correct if it’s a matter of opinion, and neither position is absurd.
For instance, say one person thinks that the world population should be controlled by social order, education and a program of information regarding contraception.
Someone else says that the U.S. ought to nuke a few countries and kill 2 billion people right away.
A ‘fair’ compromise is to nuke a billion people and then hand out information of condoms to some of the survivor. But that idea is dumb as hell.
Sometimes a compromise is great, but if one suggestion is terrible, don’t let them do even part of it.
The continental tradition ain't got shit on the Analytic crew, Hume, Ayer, Lord Russell, Quine and Wittgenstein!
Politically, I am pretty left wing, even for Canadian philosophy students, a group that's pretty damn left wing.
6.522 There are indeed things that cannot be put into words, they make themselves manifest, they are what is mystical.
And here's the Watson to my Holmes, the Batman to my Robin.
