Choosing a side is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot

Choosing sides. In every possible dilemma, argument, debate, or issue, there are two sides. Picking only one of those sides is like shooting yourself in the foot.

We are trained to believe that picking one side is the goal. That one side is good, and the other evil, and that anyone who joins the other side must also inherently be bad, wrong, or dumb.

In every media depiction of good versus evil, it is clear that we are supposed to pick the good side. Also, pretty much everyone who does this believes that the side they are picking is good, even when both sides think this.

There is something, which is neither side, yet it recognizes how both sides can both be contradictory yet correct.

Imagine this. You are a human with two eyes, which I assume most of you are. Or with two arms. two feet. etc.

Imagine only using one of those appendages on your own free will. Why would you do this to yourself? Yet you are not your arm, you are not your foot, and you are not one of your eyes. You are something which can use both feet, both arms, and both eyes, to see one picture, to complete one goal, to walk, to run, so on.

So when people choose sides, I cannot help but see this same concept in action. Why restrict yourself so strongly in terms of opinion, idea, and vision?

Why not simply see both sides, and use them to create one picture.

This is how I see harmony. However, to understand yin and yang, one needs to understand that together they can create something. Just in the same way, your body works together. In the same way headphones can create stereo sound. In the same way positive and negative charges create electric current. Or in the same way magnetic and electric fields intertwine to create light.

Understand how you can create a new cohesive understanding, by simply not restricting your mind to half of its potential.