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How do policy makers use the concepts of half-full or half-empty to argue for or against social change? Do you think this is an effective strategy? Why or why not?

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As you briefly examine how policy makers use the concepts of half-full or half-empty to argue for or against social change, I strongly feel that these analogies and their overall rhetoric, referring to water, are highly inappropriate and definitely ineffective since we are talking about human beings and citizens here, not fish in a pond or bowl. How do you feel about it?

Thus, I also deem it as an ...

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