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While that's all true, it misses the fact that people want rules. We're classifiers by nature: our brains want to sort things into "good" and "bad" regardless of what the truth is. The only solution here is to educate everyone about all the subtleties of the issue and force them into using more fine-grained categories.

Which, if you read it, is kinda what this article is trying (vainly, maybe) to do.



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