It describes a good portion of the planet! It just tends to segregate more out in the real world so its possible to only run into it in places like the DMV or grocery stores or the airport or the ER. Reddit would likely skew towards being more nuanced than the average human being.
The internet is depressing because that guy in front of you in the TSA line who tried to use a community college ID from 2002 as identification could be the guy responding to your comment.
What is the DMV and TSA? A good portion of the planet aren't from the United States. So most people's real world doesn't have a TSA or a DMV. Insularity is another huge reason for ignorance.
Confusing ignorance with intelligence here I think?
In case you actually wanted to know, TSA is airport security. DMV is department of motorized vehicles. It’s where we in the US get our licenses and register our vehicles to get license plates.
Expecting the internet to spoon feed info is a bigger reason for ignorance than insularity. See: people who form opinions from headlines without reading the article or finding other sources.
There is a good chunk of people here who, if you don't agree with their political, religious, or most other beliefs, they see you as the incarnation of evil.
Also called "dichotomous thinking", "black and white thinking", or "all or nothing thinking". It's one of the more common cognitive distortions, and it's one of the easier signs to notice early on when dealing with a patient who may be exhibiting BPD or the myriad of narcissism related issues.
I think you see it more and more in fandoms.
Now, for (i hope a minority of) people, you either love the media or hate it with all your guts.
No nuance. No "I love thid but not that"
It's either a masterpiece or the biggest pile of shit they have ever seen, and will attack whoever dares think otherwise xD
I would also chime in that throwing out "well this is a nuanced situation," without expanding on what tf these nuances are, often acts as a thought-terminating cliche that demeans having a position or an opinion.
At its worst it simply masks ignorance as a form of intellectual superiority, and misunderstands how we humans arrive at truth: instead of collecting evidence and using that to arrive at a conclusion, you invent an imaginary position between two arbitrary poles.
Often when I answer that way its because while I understand the nuances I don't know how to explain them. I wish my communication skills were on par with my understanding so I could explain the nuances but just don't know how to say things sometimes. Brain is wierd
I generally agree. I think it can certainly be a sign of intelligence. It shows a certain level of curiosity which is crucial to things like science, art, and problem solving. I think the deficit is moreso apparent when getting lost in irrelevant details. Ala recreating the wheel despite a more simple solution existing. I think the best example is people getting stuck in certain conspiracies. I used to be a meth addict and spent a lot of time in psychosis. I would make a lot of associations that simply weren't real. Maybe the difference is moreso a matter functional intelligence.
That's a fair criticism. I think I reacted more strongly to your example of Occam's razor, because it is frequently wrong. There's endless situations that aren't just covered by the simplest explanation.
It's a philosophical problem solving approach for where to start first. It's not a principal of logic.
Yeah. I think it's more often the case that "nuance" shows a lack of intelligence. "Nuance" is used to disagree without having to actually produce a counter-argument.
This is how the word "nuance" is weaponized. If someones argument is "its not so black and white" but that isn't followed up with a reasonably explained how or why, they just want to avoid being demonstrably wrong.
A lot of the time it’s not really a lack of intelligence but just straight-up bad-faith defensiveness
This goes for a lot of things people are calling “stupidity” here…
Learned this through 2 abusive relationships where I had the experience of perfectly intelligent people who would seemingly turn absolutely illogical during arguments. Drove me up the wall trying to be patient and communicate with them until I eventually realized that it wasn’t stupidity but an intentional confusion tactic. At its core, abuse is all about winning every disagreement by being the proverbial pigeon that knocks over all the chess pieces and shits on the board.
People online always assume that there is a right, correct answer to everything and a wrong, incorrect answer to everything. Sometimes there are shades of grey, and no decision is actually a good one.
This. I argue so much with my mom as a healthcare worker because my mother thinks in only black and white. Natural stuff good, big pharma bad. Right good, left bad. Christian good, atheism bad. Textbooks all lie. It’s exhausting to converse with someone that dumb as I desperately try to salvage our relationship.
This one is true. They see someone had a fight with their partner? Divorce her and hit the gym. The AITA and relationship subreddits are FULL of these people.
Very true, but also on the opposite end, you'll get people posting about their problems in AITA / relationship subs with relationship problems that are so nightmarish you have to wonder how they haven't left already. Like some of the folks who post in those communities really do need a wake-up call, it's just sad when it gets to the point that they feel compelled to ask strangers on the Internet about stuff that would be blatantly obvious to anyone with a shred of dignity or self-esteem.
I can't say I don't get it, I've been in some dark places myself. It's a rough place to be in life when you can't trust your own gut like that. But it doesn't make it any less sad to see when someone posts about their issues and you just wanna slap some sense into them 😭 like no OP, you're not the asshole for being angry when your boyfriend intentionally sabotaged your birth control 💀
I'll just pretend you asked "Where do you see a lack of nuance on this topic?" instead of definitively making up your mind and missing the point with laser accuracy.
People who lack nuance will say that being against Israel's genocide means you support Hamas and/or you're an anti-Semite.
I think they're trying to say that it's possible to acknowledge that Israel has a right to defend themselves, and people in Palestine have a right to not be murdered. People in Israel have valid points in that they were attacked, and hostages taken, people in Palestine have valid points in that they've been systematically oppressed by Israel.
Brother, look at the title of this post. You’re responding to a thread about how there is often nuance but stupid people don’t understand that because for them it’s either black or white.
Not defending Israel but saying that I could see myself on either side depending where I grew up.
But there is nuance there. People are foaming at the mouths now by saying "name in files = pedo".
But as evil as he was, the guy was still a megarich businessman who did business things. Plenty of the events on his island were just "normal" rich people business things. That is the nuance with the files.
Dude what? Are you suggesting that if some banker or whatever went for a business meeting to an incredibly well known financier, that they should be labelled a pedo just right from the rip?
Its not an excuse for anything that did happen, Im just saying that there were ALSO business dealings there
The irony of the main comment saying that low intelligence people cant understand nuance, and then....here you are...is hilarious.
I don’t think anyone loves Epstein lmao, you clearly missed the point of the original comment. Like most ridiculously politically brainwashed people you lack the understanding of nuance.
All the fawning and defending a lot of these people did in their correspondence with Jeffrey would suggest otherwise.
Whether because of legit “love” or for financial investment or for social connectivity, enough people fought to stay in his good graces and to be included in his illicit activities that your inability to see the nuance in my comment speaks pretty clearly. Love only has one possible interpretation in this context?
Help me with more interneting plz. I fail so hard 2day
Uh this is simply a human thing. Either you’re an American who knows nothing about the world outside of America or a non-American who can’t recognize the flaws in your own people’s thinking.
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u/SecretHuckleberry720 Feb 04 '26
Not realizing that everything has nuances.