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Serious complaint

Started Jan 6, 2022 | Discussions thread
Alastair Norcross
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Re: Serious complaint

William Woodruff wrote:

Alastair, I think that you have just proven that, if you start by titling a thread "Serious Complaint," a lot of people will end up taking it seriously, no matter how obvious the parody is. Well played.

Thanks. And several of the posts taking it seriously have come in after my post in which I explicitly point out that it's a parody! This reminds me of many of my students in my intro ethics classes. We read an article by Judy Thomson titled "A Defense of Abortion", and another by Don Marquis titled "Why Abortion is Immoral", and quite a few students write papers in which they either claim that Thomson attacks abortion or Marquis defends it, or sometimes both. At least in this thread, I didn't give the game away in the subject line. You actually had to read at least half way into the post.

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