I'm rarely a centrist on anything, but almost always a pacifist and don't-cause-pain type. Fighting/beefing exhausts me, so live and let live is my preferred outcome with things I disagree with. This oddly enough makes it exhausting to watch things I am opposed to failing.
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But if you are a partisan pacifist, failure of an opposed viewpoint creates an interesting conflict. It's the obvious time to press home an advantage, and combative types find that easy to do, along with gloating. But if you're sensitive to pain, you have to wait for some healing
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I think this is actually rational longer-term. Things built out of the skulls of enemies so to speak, fossilize the pain and prevent it from healing. It is better to forgo some immediate advantage and unseemly gloating, and let things heal.
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Kinda like the cool hand luke scene where the guy won't stay down, except without even the fight
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Related aspect is "the opposite of every great truth is also a great truth" so if your adversary dies absolutely, then it means your own truth is not a great truth, so there is some chagrin at discovering your own intellectual pettiness at being partisan on non-great truths
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A good rule of thumb is: if an ideological opponent can be absolutely wrong (as a total failure might reveal), then there is on your end a missed opportunity to replace an ideological position with a pragmatic one. You've been blind to something.
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