The debate over protecting gay and lesbian civil rights is also about continuing our country's move toward providing fairness and protection for its citizens. Arguments about censorship are about the right to have access to information. Keep these concepts in mind as you take your message to the public. Keep educating people about the underlying issues. But do it with perspective and humor.
Nothing can drag a debate down faster than a narrowly focused diet of deadly serious argument.
I did not see the point of the question. In later years, I learned that this was one of the most important questions to ask, not only about economics, but also about politics, social issues and many other things that are not even expressed mathematically. An equation is true only under certain conditions, while an identity is always true, just because of the way you define the terms. 4x is an identity that is true regardless of what x equals. Whether or not a statement is made in mathematical terms, it may be true either because it corresponds to some reality or just because of the way you define your terms.