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To: Solon who wrote (5827)3/30/2002 11:03:06 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
Ridicule has only one problem. It only appeals to people who already agree with you. It does absolutely nothing to help people on the other side of the ridicule understand what you are talking about. In fact, once you ridicule people or their ideas (and some people are so close to their ideas, they are clearly one and the same- as far as they are concerned) they are simply going to look for ways to get back at you, instead of actually thinking about ideas. If you want to get people to think about something, and those people don't think the way you do, ridicule is not the best tool in the tool box. I happen to love ridicule and find it fabulously entertaining- but it isn't useful for enlightening anyone, who isn't already a convert.
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