The logic of equal distances in the face of a conflict.

The logic of equal distances in the face of a conflict, from the point of view of a third (individual or collective) subject, is not generally right or wrong. 

Everything is determined by the circumstances that shape the moral and political quality of the factors of the controversy. 

The criterion for whether we will follow the attitude of equal distance or support the one against the other (in a conflict) is a criterion of a moral ideological and socio-class nature.

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One more point to determine a more correct stance in a confrontation. 

When we do not need or should not distance ourselves from all the actors in a conflict (there is also this possibility as well as the possibility that we should support the one factor against the other), when we must take a clear position in favor of the one factor, this does not mean that maintaining a kind of parallel "equal distance" may be ruled out. 

Example: 

It is generally right to support the Syrian opposition to Assad, in general, but this does not mean that it is impossible to do so while keeping (alongside) an equal distance between Assad and the Syrian opposition. 

The FSA is now a covert jihadist gang..

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