>I'm getting a sense that you are seeing things placed into one of a very few categories (i.e. "good" or "evil" - black or white) and are very absolutist about it. I see things as a continuum, where it's all shades of gray.
I am an absolutist!
Relatively speaking.
I am a relative absolutist.
Having only absolutes of black and white is clearly not so good. It makes complexity very difficult to cope with.
On the other hand, a continuum where it's all shades of gray is an infinite continuum. One end will approach absolute black, but never reach it, and the other end will approach white and yet never make it there either.
Philosophically, on this infinite continuum of gray, good and evil do not exist. There are only infinite shades of things that look more good than evil, or things that look more evil than good.
It's not the gray that I'm opposed to, or the continuum either. It's that the continuum is infinite and never reaches solid white or black.
Here is a counter-proposal: how about a -finite- continuum, as large as you like, bigger than the cosmos if necessary, but not infinite. And on one end, a spot that is absolutely white, and on the other end, a spot that is absolutely black.
What about that?
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