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Comment by swayvil

2 days ago

Critical thinking won't save you. Emotion trumps rationality. This stuff plays on emotions.

...which critical thinking skills help you to notice, so that you are less likely to fall prey to it.

  • The point, perhaps, is that you can't use reason to convince someone to be more reasonable. Humans are fundamentally emotional animals, and if you want to get them to start valuing reason, you have to use emotional arguments to do so, by definition.