Concerns

We can use this page to articulate some shared concerns. As always, please say if you think anything on this page needs to change, or we are missing something.

Binary Thinking

This is a common theme running through many of the issues we have looked at.  It is very easy to see the world as a set of binary choices: it is either this, or it is that.  Climate change is either man-made, or it is not; euthanasia is either a good thing or a bad thing; we have to support global capitalism or reject it.

In real life, many of our choices are binary: I accept this job offer, or I reject it.  But even then, other possibilities might exist: could I do the job part-time?  Working from a different office?

But, if our choices are often binary, the issues we face rarely are.  Supporters of each side may like to present us with a binary choice, and paint the opposition in the worst possible light, but very often both truth and goodness can be found in both camps.

 


Donate