# Memorable arguments where you've agreed with both sides.

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**Created:** [August 31, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-arguments-where-youve-agreed-with-both-sides/552083 "2010-08-31T02:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-arguments-where-youve-agreed-with-both-sides/552083/1 "2010-08-31T02:49:10Z")

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I love moral conundrums and masterful persuasion used in any media and I find myself awed by a writer that can make me agree with both sides at the same time. While I can only dream of doing them justice I’ve listed a few and would love to hear about others.

**Chasing Amy** - the scene after the hockey game when Holden confronts Alyssa about her past. He essentially calls her a slut and says her past destroys his ability to form a relationship with her, she says they were mistakes she made, they are in the past, and they are none of his business. When I first saw that movie I was behind Holden all the way, and now I agree with Alyssa completely.

**A Canticle for Leibowitz** - in the middle chapter “Fiat Lux”, Abbot Dom Paulo and The Poet argue about the value of faith and the wisdom of technology. I will mangle the nuance and the context if I get into it, suffice it to say, as an Atheist I believed at the time that Dom Paulo got the closest to making me believe in a god and considering where technology got them before I don’t know if I agreed with The Poet completely either.  
I had a few more in mind when I started this but am now drawing a blank…

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-arguments-where-youve-agreed-with-both-sides/552083/2 "2010-08-31T03:08:07Z")

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_I {Heart} Huckabees_, the question of whether you should seek meaning and develop a perspectiive and really live by it or live in the here and now and experience it instead of imposing a schema.