Dialectic

M: Why do you eat your corn that way?
Y: What way?
M: Around the cob, instead of the long way.
Y: What's the difference?
M: You should eat it like a typewriter: all the way down one line, then rotate, and start a new line.
Y: Why?
M: It makes no sense to eat it your way.
Y: What do you mean?
M: The kernels are lined up the long way.
Y: What?! They're lined up both ways!
M: Not as straight.
Y: So?
M: So eat it the way it's lined up!
Y: Whatever.
M: Also, the butter stays on better.
Y: What?
M: If you butter it all around, the butter drips off as you turn it. You should butter just one line all the way the long way, eat that, then butter the next section.
Y: You're nuts.
M: Look, if you don't want to eat it the right way, get used to people pointing it out.
Y: "People?" Who, besides you?
M: Anybody that's thought about it.
Y: You've thought about it a bit too much, if you ask me.
M: Hey, the unexamined life isn't worth living.
Y: I don't think that applies to corn-on-the-cob eating techniques.