The best way to change a mind isn't through shutting down the opponent, but through empathy. This means probably the people who try to shut down their opponents are the most afraid of having their own minds changed.
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"You need to open people's eyes, not poke them out." Alexander Herzn, Russian liberal - through his writings the serfs were emancipated, over 20 million of them, over 7 times the number of American slaves emancipated.
