"Black and White thinking", a requirement?

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A requirement? Perhaps at first.

I was very black and white in how I saw the world. As I've grown older, I've learned that things are rarely so. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, but there are a lot of intervening factors that complicate the issues...making it hard to call one outcome better than another. Today I have more appreciation for the issue of "shades of gray."

This is a pretty deep philosophical topic. I'd agree that deductive logic is black and white. The problem is that even deductive logic relies on premises and axiomatic "truths" which are not even prove-able. Another problem I see is that human language along with the human tendency to categorize tends to impose an artificial black-and-white-ness on nature. Humans use black-and-white terminology and labels to describe and classify phenomena in nature, yet nature itself often consists of continuums rather than discrete categories.