Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle for a traumatic brain injury?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s the middle way, after all. The guy with the bat might even say \u201csure, I just wanna hit you, hard!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might respond “No – in fact, I don’t want anyone hurting me in any way. At all” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the buttinski responds “Why won’t yiou compromise?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who’s right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The guy with the bat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or the person striving to find the middle ground between the two of you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If your response is \u201cI\u2019m putting my foot down; nobody is hitting me with a bat for any reason at all\u201c, and the other to ask \u201cwhy do you hate the guy with the bat?\u201c, does that change anybody\u2019s mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Point being, sometimes the middle path, the compromise, is not<\/em> the most moral path forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,418,453,7,24,308,391,458,25,414,309,130,17,189,320,234,426,18,51,374,69,62,44,377,229,349,22,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-blue-fragility","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-escape-from-the-narrative","category-gaza-2023","category-history-and-its-making","category-identity-first","category-indoctrinate-u","category-tc-media-bias","category-minneapolis","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-mndfl","category-modern-plagues","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","category-socialism","category-state-of-affairs","category-stupid","category-the-second-civil-war","category-third-rails","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86325,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86324\/revisions\/86325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}