Argument to moderation ||This article needs additional citations
for verification. (April 2008)| Argument to moderation (Latin:
argumentum ad temperantiam; also known as [argument from] middle
ground, false compromise, gray fallacy and the golden mean
fallacy) is an informal fallacy which asserts that the truth can
be found as a compromise between two opposite positions. This
fallacy's opposite is the false dilemma. As Vladimir Bukovsky
puts it, the middle ground between the Big Lie of Soviet
propaganda and the truth is a lie, and one should not be looking
for a middle ground between disinformation and information.
According to him, people from the Western pluralistic
civilization are more prone to this fallacy because they are
used to resolving problems by making compromises and accepting
alternative interpretations, unlike Russians who are looking for
the absolute truth. An individual demonstrating this false
compromise fallacy implies that the positions being considered
represent extremes of a continuum of