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> This seems silly. You use on the other hand to contrast two viewpoints.

I remember (from a psychology book, actually) that the reasoning is: what you say impacts what you think.

You want to compare two viewpoints. But you arrogantly think that these are the only 2 viewpoints that can possibly exist.

If you keep using "on the other hand", you will be inclined to see things as black and white.

It's a valid argument, though one might wonder how much wording impacts our internal mind.



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