The four-sided framework which you proposed of comprehensiveness, intuitiveness, flattery, and relevance offers interesting way to understand belief formation.
It certainly feels like the radical types are five-year-olds insisting that the stove is not hot and that they can touch it and we as moderates have to stop telling them not to and to just let them get the burn and learn--unfortunately.
The four-sided framework which you proposed of comprehensiveness, intuitiveness, flattery, and relevance offers interesting way to understand belief formation.
I sure hope you're right about that last paragraph there but its hard to be optimistic about that in the current climate.
I'm fairly confident he's wrong about that.
It certainly feels like the radical types are five-year-olds insisting that the stove is not hot and that they can touch it and we as moderates have to stop telling them not to and to just let them get the burn and learn--unfortunately.
Don't forget about the 60s Western college students who supported Mao and Pol Pot.
Aw c'mon J.J. I think you're cool