Yes. Well, Scott’s primary area of focus is suggestion. And he uses hyperbole fo

Yes. Well, Scott’s primary area of focus is suggestion. And he uses hyperbole for the purpose of suggestion, just like authors, educators, priests, psychologists, and psychiatrists, use analogy as a means of suggestion. THE DIFFERENCE? Logical facility declines much faster than we assume, and (don’t get offended) but there is also a large difference in empathizing (feels first) vs systematizing (reals first) in the population. And that difference is the origin of our moral and political biases. So, you can’t use hyperbole with empathizers ’cause they literally can’t comprehend it. Conversely, conservatives use Hyperbole precisely because it illustrates the masculine kantian imperative and the western protestant ethic: “what if everyone did that?” THis is the cognitive opposite of the feminine NAXALT/AXALT cognitive bias, that seems unable to grasp a distribution, by defending outliers.
Humans are fascinating, but we intuit first and only softly and questionable reason second.