It's easy to dismiss
arguments at the ends of a spectrum; after all, that's where we find straw men.
Not exact matches
To support his
argument, Tough describes how the private Riverdale Country School and KIPP Public Charter School — two New York schools
at opposite
ends of the socioeconomic
spectrum — developed this new approach to character development and are now integrating into their school cultures.
If you point out that there is a
spectrum of arguments in play, from the morally neutral science
at one
end to the doom - mongering
at the other, you are accused
of conspiracy theorising.
We have all heard the
arguments surrounding climate change, from impending doom and draconian GHG reduction measures
at one
end of the
spectrum to the destruction
of the global economy and the characterization
of global warming as fiction,
at the other
end.
The freedom
of contract
argument is, instead, strained
at the higher
end of the
spectrum.