Dunno about "step one" or "Light Arts", but that's usually among my first responses to being offered a forced choice between A and B... what are the alternatives that aren't being considered?

Not so much to avoid vicious partisanship... people can be viciously partisan for their side no matter how many competing sides there are... but because it's hard to consider the merits of options that have been arbitrarily excluded from consideration, and those options often prove viable when their merits are considered.

I am especially prone to this for subjects where certain positions have become popular tribal markers.