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The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it__hey are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation (__learly ._._._), threat (__t would be unscientific to ._._._), authority (__s Popper showed ._._._), insult (__his work lacks the necessary rigor for ._._._), and belittling (__ew people today seriously believe that ._._._). Perhaps this is why H. L. Mencken wrote that __ollege football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students.

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Steven Pinker

How the Mind Works

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Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist _ a theoretical pest from the stone-age, who somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect. Such a creature with no modern mental faculty whatsoever, knows nothing beyond the words of a book, written hundreds or thousands of years ago, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking in the society. It does not only believe every single word of a book to be literally true, but puts all its efforts to convince others to believe the same. This way, it would be an understatement to say, such is a worthless creature. In reality, such a creature can cause a catastrophic contagion in a society, especially if that society is already going through socio-political turmoil.