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Asking How Many Instead of How Many Should

Severity 3Word choice & deliveryStep 8Step 9

Asks how many animals will be exploited instead of should be exploited, weakens moral force of step 8.

The give pair

Gives ammo

How many animals will be exploited because of you, zero or more?

Gives nothing

From now on, how many more animals should be exploited because of you? Zero or more?

The round they fire back

Treats it as preference or prediction, 'maybe zero eventually' instead of moral obligation.

How to fix it

Use should: how many more animals should be exploited because of you? When they say zero, connect to vegan now.

Coaching notes

  • You didn't ask the word should, when they say zero they understand it should be zero.
  • Should frames right vs wrong; will frames prediction.

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