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(85,984 posts). . . I think 'hyperbole' is more than just good fun or to be ridiculed in the excess.
The senses and perception of the average reader or recipient of our script is so practiced and dulled by the predicted state of events and initiative that it often needs to be jolted and jostled by high-flying rhetoric to get the point across and make it stick in the heart of whatever debate it manages to spark.
The well-reasoned argument would certainly seem to be self-evident and plainly understood, but, it's exactly that complacent acceptance of the status quo which is the real obstacle to progressive change. It needs to be aggressively challenged with dialog that rises above the patter that intends to smooth everything out and settle everything down.