This is an excellent article on the sort of simplistic thinking and rationalizing that all too often results in the sort of mindless drivel of opinion in the press and, of course, on this list.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/

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The Sophisticate: "The world isn't black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It's all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else."

The Zetet: "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..."

-- Marc Stiegler, David's Sling

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-- Ed Leafe

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