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“Argument via ridicule only takes you so far, and only keeps the already converted entertained.”

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That’s the quote of the day, from this interesting blog post at Solomonia (h/t Amy Welborn).

I wish everybody who dares to venture into debate, from a lectern or over the dinner table, would remember that truth.  It’d certainly make presidential elections less tiresome.

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    Rich Leonardi

    I guess it depends on what one means by “ridicule.” There are numerous Catholic curmudgeons, e.g., Waugh, Chesterton, Belloc, who used wit and biting satire to ridicule — or at least poke fun at — their rivals, and no one would claim they only kept the “already converted entertained.”

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