Are you suggesting that the last part is a mistaken move? — All sight
I'm making the pragmatic point that many people are fairly impervious to reason and more swayed by rthetoric, so if "winning" in the marketplace of ideas really was just down to using reason, I'd agree with you, but I'm saying it's demonstrably not. — Baden
That would only happen if we as a society reject reason and logic as the arbiters of truth. — Harry Hindu
You have simply made a martyr. — Lif3r
You have a duty to your fellow human beings — Lif3r
You have to talk with them; not at them. They have already been talked at, it doesn't work, and that is part of why they are upset in the first place. — Lif3r
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