manichaean

Of course we who live in reality know that that's not true, and the world is too complicated for such Manichaean morality.

The manichaean straw-manning is not helpful (and is in fact one of my main points of contention here).

They are comfortable when those decisions are framed in simplistic Manichaean terms because it demands little thought.

And what costs they were: torture, surveillance, war, a Manichaean division of the world into heroes and villains.

I disagree, it’s a gross generalisation across millions of companies worldwide, and a very manichaean one at that.

I get your meaning obviously, but fundamentally tis a strangely Manichaean outlook: they were developed naturally.

Suppose more of a Manichaean devil rather than the Christian one.

One can make very strong claims that free software is better or preferable to proprietary software without putting it in the manichaean terms that Stallman does.

It was not Arabic script; rather, it looked to me like the Uigurian script of West Turkestan, which was familiar to me from the Manichaean fragments from Turfan.

These are both Manichaean positions that obfuscate the mutual gains added to economic society when one group is raised and the mutual losses sustained when one group is reduced.

Starting at around 11 or 12, children become much more sophisticated in their ability to hold contradictory propositions about the world — they move from Manichaean either-or, black-or-white reasoning to a more ironic, complex understanding.

My Firefox on my Linux uses DejaVu Sans for the first three, Noto Sans Palmyrene for the next two, Noto Sans Manichaean for the one after that and Noto Sans Symbols 2 for the rest.

Looks like quite a few of these arrived with the addition of the historical Manichaean script in which “there are several punctuation-marks to indicate headlines, page-divisions, sentence-divisions, and others”.

If it were Manichaean, is there any way to make sure one would be praying to the correct side of the duality?

I don't have to do that, because even though I'm usually the conservative in the crowd around here, my worldview isn't that Manichaean.

It just exists as a proof, and by its existence as such it simply reconfigures the consciousness of the user to align with its obvious, Manichaean-esque purity.