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by Mountain_Skies 895 days ago
Making an emotional connection with the reader builds trust which later can be exploited to present assertions without solid evidence.
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Yes…

but often it tells you how little time they have spent actually engaged with the real truth of the place or places they are about to compare the problems of wherever they live, instead of the idealistic view of someone who was visiting family or being a tourist … it is a shortcut to that emotional connection to the reader, but taking that can sometimes leave the writer clearly marked as not actually having any grounds upon which the rest of their arguments can stand…

This however doesn’t appear to suffer from that. It seems quite well considered.