Cutting to the core issue, keeping to the core issue, without being drawn into tangential issues and effects is difficult.
You will find more and more that the truly brilliant human minds have the uncanny ability to see beyond and through the smoke surrounding an issue to identify the core issue of anything at all. Then they keep this clarity of vision relentlessly without compromise.
The complete lack of clarity is prevalent when issues are brought before the courts and debated by governments. The core concept becomes obscured and the scene becomes a negotiation of everyone’s separate and disparate values.
Even in debates or lively discussions this happens.
There is a complete lack of adherence to a concept or principle, also known as values, and everyone seems to have negotiated values for the moment.
This topic is something I referenced once in a song called Nobody’s Home.
The context in the song was that seeing the truth come out and then promptly spun to indicate falsehoods succeeds in making everyone think that they know the truth.
Not a perfect example, point being that any concept or event can be obscured by a clouding issue.
Public rights violations would be a better example. These typically happen by apathetic and corrupt governments.
A right need not be exercised to be important yet rights are eroded on the basis of just such an argument. The core issue of having rights, or the rights existence, is ignored and missed by debating the purpose of the rights, or the current use of the rights, or the extent to which the rights are needed and so on. The right to have a right, used or not, is lost.
Stick to the underlying issue and the rest will sort itself out.