I wonder if there are any good examples of very distracting examples that are not in themselves distracting examples… what a delightfully referential question. It would be good to have such an example but it’s hard to think of anything.
Revisiting this. Maybe silly animal examples would work, like the monkey philosopher that uses banana’s in their examples and then fails to get the other monkeys to understand philosophy and instead just gets them focused on bananas… I like that this example would not distract people, but many people would probably fail to generalize to how political examples are distracting.
I wonder if there are any good examples of very distracting examples that are not in themselves distracting examples… what a delightfully referential question. It would be good to have such an example but it’s hard to think of anything.
Revisiting this. Maybe silly animal examples would work, like the monkey philosopher that uses banana’s in their examples and then fails to get the other monkeys to understand philosophy and instead just gets them focused on bananas… I like that this example would not distract people, but many people would probably fail to generalize to how political examples are distracting.