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But for those of us who cherish art for art's sake, gussying it up with photos, paint samples, and teapots merely trivializes and distracts.
Simply say, "Mother, you know I love you, but the noise of your eating while talking on the phone distracts me from what you're saying."
The other overhyped controversy that distracts ethicists from the real action is cloning.
According to Kincaid, the real problem with our obsession with child sexual abuse is that it distracts us from other kinds of abuse that affect far more children than molesting does: boring, unsensational kinds of abuse such as poverty, neglect, and bad schools.
"Not in the lots of big words sense, not in the complicated ideas that make your head hurt sense, not in the having to think about stuff so hard that it distracts you from shopping and later that night you have that little sexual problem again, not me personally but some other stupider people sense," he didn't add.