Originally posted by rockingship
What is a bit disturbing to me....and I'm entirely tired of debating the issue.....is when people see the AR propaganda, and hear the voices of political action groups like GPL and Grey2K....and then are appraised of the truth by those of us who have actual empirical knowledge of the breed and years of experience with the breed as professionals....but then somehow come to the conclusion that "the truth is somewhere in the middle.
That is my pet peeve, Rock.

It's intellectual laziness. For many it's too much of a bother to actually read and think to come to a meaningfull conclusion---"splitting the difference" is the easy way out. People think they're compromising when they are really giving equal weight to two arguments regardless of their merit. That's why AR groups purposely exaggerate their numbers with preposterous ideas like puppy culling. They know some people are gullible enough to believe them outright. They also know many people will be inclined to "split the difference" which will always make the numbers far worse than they actually are.