Neutrality (philosophy)
Neutrality is the absence of declared bias. In an argument, a neutral person will not choose a side. The word "disinterested" is sometimes used to imply neutrality; a disinterested party has no stake or vested interest in the outcome, and can act without bias.
A neutral country maintains political neutrality, a related but distinct concept.
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“My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us—which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)