I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.

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He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles.

This is a flat, unnecessary, and strangely disturbing denial of the fourth-wall convention, that unwritten agreement between playwright and playgoer whereby you think of yourself at the theatre as a privileged, exonerated, comfortably seated eavesdropper.