True, although being told less often that you are missing the point isn’t, in and of itself, all that valuable; the value is in getting the point of those who otherwise would have given up on you with a remark along those lines.
(Note that I say “less often”; I was recently told that this criticism of Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”, which I had invoked in a discussion of “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, missed the point of the story—to which I replied along the lines of, “I get the point, but I don’t agree with it.”)
You will also get less feedback on the lines of “you just don’t get it”
True, although being told less often that you are missing the point isn’t, in and of itself, all that valuable; the value is in getting the point of those who otherwise would have given up on you with a remark along those lines.
(Note that I say “less often”; I was recently told that this criticism of Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”, which I had invoked in a discussion of “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, missed the point of the story—to which I replied along the lines of, “I get the point, but I don’t agree with it.”)