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If you are tryiing to persuade people to join a particular issue, it doesn't help when you alienate parts of your readerbase. The first paragraph: > I'm not j
by steveplace 13y ago
If you are tryiing to persuade people to join a particular issue, it doesn't help when you alienate parts of your readerbase.
The first paragraph:
> I'm not just thinking of the country's dysfunctional Congress, pathological infatuation with firearms, addiction to litigation, crazy healthcare arrangements, engorged prison system, chronic inequality, 50-year-old military-industrial complex and out-of-control security services.
Right there you've already excluded persons who are pro-gun and want to support your cause.
This kind of issue transcends a lot of traditional barriers, so it would help if they weren't reconstructed around the argument.
- MRSallee 13y agoYeah, the "pathological infatuation with firearms" bit struck me as out of place among the other issues. I don't own guns, but I'm not afraid of people that do.
- selectodude 13y agoI've found that most people who shoot their peers with guns, don't actually own the gun.
- AsymetricCom 13y ago> And potentially 136 years for downloading stuff Wow, this makes me want to punch the writer more than any other line, and I pirate regularly. It's obvious that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act needs reform, maybe that's why the press is having their lamest hacks write about it?