In the brave new world we inhabit I do not allow graduate students to simply make their research presentation toward the end of the term. If I did, I would get the quality of presentation I now call a “first presentation.” Some comments on one were like this:
Professor Zero: …although the “negative” poem is the more interesting one in terms of writing, and the issues it points to are interesting.
Presenter: Yes, these issues are typically seen as more interesting because they are the stuff of commercial genre films – insecurity, persecution, failure, death.
Student 2: I am not sure the reference is genre film – I think it is the nightly news.
And I realized what the politics and rhetoric of the presentation had been: if one raises uncomfortable issues from the news, one can be told one is a genre film viewer and needs to look more on the bright side of things.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
It doesn’t feel right cause one’s left off the hook whenever the other side decide to do so. It is scary.
Yes, it’s a specular kind of logic.