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This one's easy.

I'm trying to post less, but this one I can't resist.

The issue is that many of us are taking a middle ground, with a skeptical, reasonable confidence in both science and our own subjective experiences. And as we do so, some people are always trying to shove us out of the middle, to one extreme or the other. In recent months on this forum I've been lumped with the scientific objectivists (by bjh, john curl, charles hansen, etc.) and with the radical subjectivists (I don't remember by whom, but it was because I dared to question the efficacy of double-blind testing).

What's especially interesting about the preceeding post is its insistence on preserving a dichotomy. "Stop trying to find common ground," the poster is saying, in effect. "Just accept that people are different."

And the reason for this is clear: it's because the extreme subjectivist perspective is insupportable against a moderate perspective: you have to envision your "opponent" (if you will) as being on the other extreme. It's only in contrast to the other extreme position that either extreme position seems reasonable. I think they call it a straw man. FWIW, despite the obvious preference for one perspective stated in this post, BOTH points of view described here, EMS and iml, are caricatures, even if the poster relates to one of them, as seems to be the case.

Jim Austin

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