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> mentions "lies" but ...

That's not fair.

I didn't finish it, but they spent at least half the article pointing out deliberate misconceptions and misrepresentations of the reasons for going back to office. That is definitely lying, either repeating someone else's lie or making your own. They just used different words.

> Immature

> Throwing toys

Sheesh, the point is "It's hard and not useful for me - and likely hard and not useful for others". You may not find this convincing, but let's recall the main rhetorical mechanisms, all the way back to Aristotle: Pathos, Logos, Ethos.

Using Pathos (emotion, in this case sympathy) is a fine way of persuading. It didn't work for you, but it's not "immature" to point out physical, emotional limits when asked to do something.



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