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Foxes are red-green colorblind, and thus cannot distinguish between fresh and brown grapes at a glance.
The parable would have been much more effective if this were hinted at or something. Very few people (I would think) possess this key bit of background knowledge.
Why would it have been more effective? Effective at what?
At not being confusing.
Well, that clears up part of it... but what's the moral of the story?
It hasn't got a moral. It's just a pattern of human activity I've noticed, filtered through a metaphor to highlight the relevant parts and remove distracting contextual details.
Capping the end with explicit advice would imply that I knew how to fix the pattern in question.
Your metaphor has unfortunately also obscured the relevant parts and inserted distracting contextual details.
This?
I didn't get the parable at all until I read this. Thanks for pointing it out.