People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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.
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.
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