This is also true. I like to evaluate solutions outside the presented dichotomy in general, and that often means outside the line between them, but I didn't want to complicate my initial explanation that much.
It's an abstraction of a caricature I've seen. Point A was civil rights, point B was the KKK, and the middle ground guy was like "what if we only kill half of Black people?"
a lot of us don’t actually think the answer is always the middle ground between two stances.
I'm not scared of conflict, I'm averse to needless conflict. I may get involved in a conflict for the purpose of breaking it up, or I may initiate a conflict for a good cause such as combating hatred and averting future conflicts - if I feel it'd be productive.
Maybe there's a middle ground between our two views.
As a middle ground kind of guy, I would like to pre-emptively state that a lot of us don't actually think the answer is always the middle ground between two stances. It's just that we're more likely to propose a middle ground solution because we evaluate the plausibility of both stances in a more balanced way (as opposed to existing-stance-holders who are prone to bias towards their own stance.) When the two seem roughly equal in plausibility (which happens fairly often, otherwise the argument would be more one-sided,) that's an indication to evaluate the middle ground as well.
Middle ground folks are often caricaturized as wanting to find the middle ground between an objectively sensible point A and a radically wrong point B, when the spectrum of opinions is sort of like [ - - - - - A - | - - - - - - B ]. In that caricature, we're looking for a middle ground at point C [ - - - - - A - | - - C - - - B ], when in actuality we're evaluating (and not automatically accepting) something two or three steps closer to A. In some such cases, A might already be the most sensible middle ground.
That just makes me jump.
I'm so glad to see more people around here realizing this.
Once I was in a car with my cousin, fealing kinda sick, so I had a towel on my lap in case I threw up. I did end up throwing up, but I did so on my cousin, which prompted him to throw up right back on me.
I'm not saying "go marry," I'm saying to consider it.
Why not marry now?
Used to be, when you'd search "man meme" on Google Images, you'd get a note saying memes about groups of people may be offensive. It doesn't anymore, but that's not a double standard thing because it also doesn't if you search "woman meme." Still does if you search races.