This seems like an overly good-faith / mistake-theoretic explanation of the false dichotomy (which is not to say never applicable). This is a dialectical social dynamic; each side gains credit with its supporters by using the other side’s bad arguments as a foil, conspicuously ignoring the possibility of positions outside the binary.
This seems like an overly good-faith / mistake-theoretic explanation of the false dichotomy (which is not to say never applicable). This is a dialectical social dynamic; each side gains credit with its supporters by using the other side’s bad arguments as a foil, conspicuously ignoring the possibility of positions outside the binary.