--- Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
Alternatives include when it is viable, when it is born.
Degrees, yes--as others have pointed out, its a spectrum. But in the context of consensus, that "spectrum" is also a bell curve, with the two extremes representing the vocal minorities, while most people might agree to some fetal age a pragmatic compromise. I dont own a polling company, so this is not sourced. In this case, however the extremes appear to be split along absolute/binary lines, while in reality most understand the middle ground. Hence the extremes are almost reflexively represented as majorities rather than as minorites,(1) and this inverse logic effects how our articles are written and debated. IMHO It's incorrect for a general bell curve consensus to be represented as simply exclusively a bunch of "minorities"(2) just because there are different degrees. IOW, to claim that an intuited 'general compromise POV' is merely a group of conceptual, unrelated, and distict POVs is not correct, as even a 'conceptual consensus'(3) = rationality == NPOV. With representation for all the conceptual and political degrees of course.
Fn 1 minorities (though certainly there's a political split point) 2 (Perhaps so because there is yet no definitive popular consensus yet on where the line is, other than that represented in Roe.) 3 ...consensus, (as opposed to segmentalism on the particulars)...
SV Apologies for U.S.-centrist language and footnotes.
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