The political classes (ie the people most involved in agitation and theorizing) tend to not have children, and I worry this leads to a fundamental disconnect when it comes to the persuasive value of exaggerated displays of grief and crying.
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“This situation is so awful it makes me cry” has a lot more power over someone who hasn’t ever seen a kid bawl their eyes out over knocking over an ice cream cone.
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this is probably the funniest own of childless people I’ve ever seen
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