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Exactly. Emacs doesn't need an elaborate case for its defense; non-modal is more natural/easier-to-learn/BETTER (control-this, control-that) than modal. Not merely my 2 cents -- it's the TRUTH!
There's evidence that toy preferences of girls and boys are in part hardwired (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452921). It's analogous to career choices. It's what we all know intuitively, but political correctness pressures us to invent alternate explanations. Even esr succumbed: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2118#more-2118.
Coma, by Alex Garland. Choose a day when you can read it in one sitting.
"Perhaps the OP would have been more effective describing a less controversial field."
Exactly! As I read the article, my feeling was he was being disingenuous, condescendingly mocking the lawyer and his profession.
Then the final two sections, generalizing his advice to the lawyer for other professionals, seemed like a gloss.