My immediate reaction to reading this was that it was obvious that the particular hot-button issue that inspired it was the recent PUA debate… but I notice nobody else seems to have picked up on that, so now I’m wondering… was that what you had in mind, or am I just being self-obsessed?
(don’t worry, I’m not itching to restart that issue, I’m just curious about whether or not I’m imagining things)
ETA: Ok, after reading the rest of the comments more thoroughly, I guess I’m not the only person who figured that was your inspiration.
Personally, I would suggest you use the concrete examples, rather than abstract or hypothetical ‘poison-fruit’ kind of stories—those things never seem to be effective intuition pumps (for me at least). If you want to avoid the mind-killing effect of a hot-button issue, I think a better idea is just to use multiple concrete examples, and to choose them such that any given person is unlikely to have the same opinion on both of them.
My immediate reaction to reading this was that it was obvious that the particular hot-button issue that inspired it was the recent PUA debate… but I notice nobody else seems to have picked up on that, so now I’m wondering… was that what you had in mind, or am I just being self-obsessed?
(don’t worry, I’m not itching to restart that issue, I’m just curious about whether or not I’m imagining things)
ETA: Ok, after reading the rest of the comments more thoroughly, I guess I’m not the only person who figured that was your inspiration.
Personally, I would suggest you use the concrete examples, rather than abstract or hypothetical ‘poison-fruit’ kind of stories—those things never seem to be effective intuition pumps (for me at least). If you want to avoid the mind-killing effect of a hot-button issue, I think a better idea is just to use multiple concrete examples, and to choose them such that any given person is unlikely to have the same opinion on both of them.