I think generalizing from fictional evidence puts the conversation off to a bad start because John uses a misleading intuition pump for how empathy would play out in more realistic situations
It’s fair to not want to defend fictional examples as non-representative, though I think it was helpful for illustration. (And he did give the other example of the team project at the elite university where John did most of the heavy lifting.)
I think generalizing from fictional evidence puts the conversation off to a bad start because John uses a misleading intuition pump for how empathy would play out in more realistic situations
It’s fair to not want to defend fictional examples as non-representative, though I think it was helpful for illustration. (And he did give the other example of the team project at the elite university where John did most of the heavy lifting.)
To be clear, they did substantially more than zero of the work.