I guess the fence amounts to a "third" possible position, but (it seems to me) to defend it as a position defies all conventional advocacy, and demands (too often) argument for it's own sake.
I have yet to witness anyone who willfully straddles a fence climb down gracefully or be coerced from it by sheer force of logical debate or reasoned discourse.
After all, we've been doing this for going on five years, and I don't recall any incidents of stunned enlightenment in that entire time.
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