But isn't the overall name of this game "I'm better than you (and so you're going to Hell!"
It seems to me that it goes beyond gray becoming white in comparison to black, but red or even lettuce or philosophy becoming "white" as the comparisons get farther and farther afield.
Having lived with a mind that followed this very path of "reasoning" I have to say that prior to that experience, i simply would not have believed that people could make these sorts of arguments with straight faces and the passionate courage-of-conviction that I witnessed. And not all the people involved in the argument were mentally ill......exactly.
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It seems to me that it goes beyond gray becoming white in comparison to black, but red or even lettuce or philosophy becoming "white" as the comparisons get farther and farther afield.
Having lived with a mind that followed this very path of "reasoning" I have to say that prior to that experience, i simply would not have believed that people could make these sorts of arguments with straight faces and the passionate courage-of-conviction that I witnessed. And not all the people involved in the argument were mentally ill......exactly.
Re: Something completely different
I don't know. I should Google for other things Sparks has written to see whether he does lean that way or not.