| Simplifying matters in order to inform others is an obvious necessity, it's just a matter of who does it for whom, and is he who simplifies being objective about it.
If I need to inform a client of mine that making his website run on a server that supports the latest version of the PHP engine for some funcional purposes, I won't go into details with him or her, because it'd take the whole day to go through the knowledge behind the matter. I just tell him or her that "well, it won't work properly without it."
Now, I can spin the whole issue to make things easier for me, while costing the client more money, for example. If I spin it, I'm not being objective because I have something to gain from it.
The people who are simplifying matters of importance to a public that -- for practical reasons -- can't grasp the details, needs to be as objective as possible, that is, should have nothing to gain from slanting the explanation/simplification. |