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OrphanWilde comments on The Fable of the Burning Branch - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 08 February 2016 04:29:34PM 4 points [-]

A bit heavy-handed and overspecified. For this style of narrative, you should identify and address the root of the social phenomenon you're writing about, and wrestle with that, instead of translating it as literally as possible into an arbitrary metaphor.