“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”(Lao Tze)

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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.