A great way to understand another's point of view is to strawman it!! If you're actually interested in GGGP's position, look at his second sentence -- it's not

A great way to understand another's point of view is to strawman it!! If you're actually interested in GGGP's position, look at his second sentence -- it's not that he's some insane opponent of Law and Order, it's that he seems to believe that the US penal system is so monstrous a punishment that he'd rather not visit it on anyone. Regardless, asking open-ended questions, rather than hoisting Cunningham's Law and charging, is probably a better way to 'spark discussion'.