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Most people know that there are two sides to every issue: their side, and the wrong side. Authors (and people in general) who subscribe to the '''Golden Mean Fallacy''' have another outlook. They believe that there are in fact three sides: the side of the complete morons to the left of them, the side of the complete morons to the right of them, and their own side, which combines the good points of each in sublime harmony while avoiding all the bad. If one position is argued to be superior ''solely'' because it is in the middle, then this is the [[You Fail Logic Forever|logical fallacy]] of [[wikipedia:Argument to moderation|Argument to Moderation]].
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