I don’t understand your usage of the term “hanging a lampshade” in this context. I don’t think either Steve’s or Liron’s behavior in the hypothetical is unrealistic or unreasonable. I have seen similar conversations before. Liron even stated that the Steve was basically him from some time ago. I thought hanging a lampshade is when the fictional scenario is unrealistic or overly coincidental and the author wants to alleviate reader ire by letting them know that he thinks the situation is unlikely as well. Since the situation here isn’t unrealistic, I don’t see the relevance of hanging a lampshade.
If the article should be amended to include pro-”Uber exploits drivers” arguments it should also include contra arguments to maintain parity. Otherwise we have the exact same scenario but in reverse, as including only pro-”Uber exploits drivers” arguments will “automatically [...] generate bad feelings in people who know better the better arguments”. This is why getting into the object-level accuracy of Steve’s claim has negative value. Trying to do so will bloat the article and muddy the waters.
Steve’s argumemt is explicitly bad, but the original post doesn’t say that better arguments exist. And “Uber exploits workers?” isn’t a settled question like, say, “vaccines cause autism?” or “new species develop from existing species.” so the author shouldn’t presume that the audience is totally familiar with the relative merits of both (or either) side(s), and can recognize that Steve is making a relatively poor argument for his point.
And the overall structure pattern-matches to straw man fallacy. Perhaps that’s the only thing that needs to be lampshade? If instead of ’Steve” the character is called “Scarecrow” (and then call the other one Dorathy, for narrative consistency/humor)
I don’t understand your usage of the term “hanging a lampshade” in this context. I don’t think either Steve’s or Liron’s behavior in the hypothetical is unrealistic or unreasonable. I have seen similar conversations before. Liron even stated that the Steve was basically him from some time ago. I thought hanging a lampshade is when the fictional scenario is unrealistic or overly coincidental and the author wants to alleviate reader ire by letting them know that he thinks the situation is unlikely as well. Since the situation here isn’t unrealistic, I don’t see the relevance of hanging a lampshade.
If the article should be amended to include pro-”Uber exploits drivers” arguments it should also include contra arguments to maintain parity. Otherwise we have the exact same scenario but in reverse, as including only pro-”Uber exploits drivers” arguments will “automatically [...] generate bad feelings in people who know better the better arguments”. This is why getting into the object-level accuracy of Steve’s claim has negative value. Trying to do so will bloat the article and muddy the waters.
Steve’s argumemt is explicitly bad, but the original post doesn’t say that better arguments exist. And “Uber exploits workers?” isn’t a settled question like, say, “vaccines cause autism?” or “new species develop from existing species.” so the author shouldn’t presume that the audience is totally familiar with the relative merits of both (or either) side(s), and can recognize that Steve is making a relatively poor argument for his point. And the overall structure pattern-matches to straw man fallacy. Perhaps that’s the only thing that needs to be lampshade? If instead of ’Steve” the character is called “Scarecrow” (and then call the other one Dorathy, for narrative consistency/humor)