There also those who only see black and white/good and bad....

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    There also those who only see black and white/good and bad. truth and lies
    or "you are with me or against me" with no graduations in between .
    Call it "on the spectrum" extremism , cognitive impairment or binary;
    its alienating and leads to conflict of the " we-them" syndrome.

    This is typical of RW Populists.

    This syndrome is playing out on this Ukrainian War thread where
    some simply can't accept that others can see both sides of this war
    and that in doing so is perceived as backing/barracking for one side or the
    other rather than being neutral.

    This "Moral Absolutism" is in conflict with our Multicultural society which
    in order to engender cohesion rather than conflict tends to favour multi-values
    (Moral Relativism) rather than "Uniculturalism" inherited from our colonial past

    https://iep.utm.edu/moral-re/

    So in summary re this war:

    IMO in order to find a resolution both parties will have to sit down
    with their supporters (puppeteers) and simply put their cases on the table
    and simply recognise each others' differences and then respectfully
    seek mutually acceptable compromises ...otherwise it simply more war

    And of course to reject compromise for the sake of peace is simply
    falling into the binary trap referred to above.
 
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