Chen is trying to make the argument that even people with the most radical ideas are still human at the end of the day. In this case, Megan is the person that Chen is humanizing. This essay shows how people are born into certain belief systems and how it’s hard to go against the values that they were brought up to have.
This essay is linked to Appiah’s “Making conversation and the primacy of practice” because they both talk about people being born into certain beliefs and that changing those beliefs is hard but possible.
