This idea is mostly wrong.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
True evil tends to come in pairs 90% of the time. If you can’t say something that transcends the dichotomy with imagination, speaking up about one will enable the other.
Conversation
Imaginative synthesis speech > silence > self-righteous moral derp
“Balance” is not transcendent imaginative synthesis. It’s in fact enabling both evils equally. This is why bothsidesism is pernicious.
The opposite of a Great Lie is also a Great Lie
2
24
When someone adopts a posture of great courage but nothing much is actually being risked besides being disliked or losing some friends, what you’re actually seeing is a lack of imagination. Often the person is simply getting off on feelings of martyrdom.
1
20
Courage without imagination is basically beefing. Violence for the sake of violence.
Imagination without courage is just noise.

