Doesn't this just shut down conversation instead of nuance and clarity? It's definitely one way to address the ambiguity in a question like "is the world gettin

Doesn't this just shut down conversation instead of nuance and clarity? It's definitely one way to address the ambiguity in a question like "is the world getting worse over time?" but doesn't seem useful: dismissing the question entirely discourages learning and discussion rather than adding to it. Instead, we could think of what most people (or an imagined reasonable person) might mean by that question, and how the media and scientific communities define and engage it.