Another general point regarding cost — because I think, again, both sides have been guilty of
the same oversimplification.
But I have also seen quotes of the cost of averting AGW that fall victim to
the same oversimplification: that look at what it would cost if we all switched to hybrids, or changed our home heating to an alternative source, without regard to the fact that new tehnologies will be developed to fill demand, cost of hybrids will come down as production scales up, etc..
Not exact matches
As far as wanting us to be happy when we win (which we are) and sad when we loose (
same her) is an
oversimplification of keeping fans out of the long term issues that plague this club.
And my answer isn't an
oversimplification - it's the
same as yours, just phrased differently.
AIDS has suffered from the
same kind of
oversimplification: it is either «wiping out» the entire continent, or it scarcely exists at all.
There are jokes about Hitchcock's weight and alcohol consumption; there's a moment where he praises his secretary / reader / girl Friday Peggy Robertson (Toni Collette) and she almost cries for his tenderness; and, for God's sake, there's a suggestion that Hitch had a spyhole drilled into Vera Miles's dressing room, diminishing Norman Bates's use of the
same device's metaphoric value in Psycho as a camera indicting audience voyeurism while introducing into the ecosystem this vile
oversimplification of Hitchcock's obsessions.