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Originally Posted by photon
See, that is a logical fallacy. It assumes that both extremes are necessarily false, when in fact they may not be. The truth lies where the evidence points, if it happens to be at one extreme of the other or in the middle.
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On a separate note, I would completely disagree with this statement when applied to questions not of the natural sciences. In certain human circumstances, whether dealing with text or other, there almost always completely irreconciliable positions where the evidence is vague or conflicting.
In cases like Mikey's, the evidence or situation is so completely misunderstood that the level of discussion in this thread is either incredulous skepticism or very low brow analysis which seems to take all evidence at face-value.
So actually I probably agree. I don't really know. I just know things seem to be more complicated than the ridiculous notion that we are all puppets on the stage.