"Contempt makes persuasion impossible — no one has ever been hated into agreement, after all — so its expression is either petty self-indulgence or cheap virtue signaling, neither of which wins converts."https://buff.ly/2Tge25j
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Yours is a specious argument, since the vast majority of replies here are NOT as you describe, but are more along sensible lines like: "Yes, but SOME positions merit contempt." You are straw-manning them. Weaksauce.pic.twitter.com/liBYOXuEtU
You precisely paraphrased what I said and then called it a strawman?
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No. Your argument specifically used the word "my" contempt, as if they blindly exempt themselves. But they aren't so naive. They are making the dispassionate logical argument that "some" opinions are worthy of contempt, whomever might hold that contempt.
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