Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.