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You were content to play the policy-by-literary-allusion game in your top comment. It feels like you only developed an opinion against it after being insulted-b

• roenxi 5y ago
  Quite possibly, it certainly helped crystallise to me why the original article rubbed me the wrong way. It is a relatively subtle problem but argument-by-Dickensian-allegory isn't a path to better politics. Objectives and arguments rooted in the 21st century are a much better approach. It is a setup that subtly frames opposition as "well you're just like the antagonist of a novel!" rather than trying to respectfully sift through the relevant merits and trade-offs. That isn't a good way to think about policy.