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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That's not true. Nearly nothing is black and white.

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Like all good proverbs, there tends to be some truth in them. Besides, proverbs are meant to be short, to not generalise to some degree you'd need an essay and it would lose its charm.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But this one is literally wrong.

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In a literal sense, perhaps. But figuratively, depending on the context? This was written a millenia ago so would not be applied to modern politics or ideology, after all.

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That's... literally what the quote is saying. It's warning that when some people pedestalize one thing, they create its negative binary - that they risk black and white thinking if they elevate one thing as superior.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And it is wrong. Bianary thinking has nothing to do with prefrences, or decernment, or descrimination.

Finding something to be better than the rest does not mean you think worse of everything else, and it does not mean you think everything else is bad, or even equally valued.

The entire quote is nonsense.