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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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Failure is painful, and hard to watch for a pacifist no matter who it happens to and whether or not they deserve it. The reason you don't like fighting is that you don't like either experiencing or causing pain. So though I joke about schadenfreude, I hardly ever experience it.
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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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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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