{"id":9347,"date":"2022-05-10T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"unpersuasive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9347","title":{"rendered":"UNPERSUASIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abortion debate is not just a disagreement. It is a &#8220;two movies on one screen&#8221; scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People are seeing two very different realities. And each reality has its own echo chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">inside that echo chamber, it is incredibly difficult to tell what is a persuasive argument and what it not. As long as it aligns with &#8220;our side&#8221;, confirmation\u00a0bias will lead us to believe the quote or meme we are sharing on Instagram is airtight and incontrovertible .\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seldom is. The other side is more likely to see the flaws in our arguments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not looking to get political here. I am wanting only to give an example of an opinion that seems profound within one side of the abortion reality and incredibly weak and ridiculous from the other.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve seen the following opinion reposted frequently since last week when the news was first leaked about a possible looming Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade. This post from the pro-choice side flops hard outside the pro-choice echo chamber:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"671\" height=\"960\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abortion debate is not just a disagreement. It is a &#8220;two movies on one screen&#8221; scenario. People are seeing two very different realities. And each reality has its own echo chamber. inside that echo chamber, it is incredibly difficult to tell what is a persuasive argument and what it not. As long as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9349,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions\/9349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}