<story><title>Member of The European Union</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/6172/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhaps0dy</author><text>&amp;gt;Many people think that a country is better off if its workers are decently paid, do not work excessively long hours, and work in a safe environment. (If you are sufficiently right wing, then you may disagree, but that just means that you will need other examples to illustrate the abstract principle.)&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to resist stabs at the &amp;quot;other side&amp;quot; of politics, if you are trying to explain something? People in the other side will be distracted by this, and think less of the author, or (like me) think it&amp;#x27;s a misguided or untrue example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcard</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think this is misguided at all. I&amp;#x27;ve heard right-wing people say work hours should be an employee-employer agreement that shouldn&amp;#x27;t concern the government. The author argues, quite civically in my opinion, that one can disagree with this particular example but that shouldn&amp;#x27;t interfere with the main point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Member of The European Union</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/6172/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhaps0dy</author><text>&amp;gt;Many people think that a country is better off if its workers are decently paid, do not work excessively long hours, and work in a safe environment. (If you are sufficiently right wing, then you may disagree, but that just means that you will need other examples to illustrate the abstract principle.)&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to resist stabs at the &amp;quot;other side&amp;quot; of politics, if you are trying to explain something? People in the other side will be distracted by this, and think less of the author, or (like me) think it&amp;#x27;s a misguided or untrue example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwanem</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s certainly possible, but it requires sufficient empathy and intellectual openness to study and understand the arguments of the &amp;quot;other side&amp;quot;, which seems lacking on all sides of late.</text></comment>