Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > If we want to spread the word, we first need to anticipate the > responses of those who think the answer is “yes”. > > What is their strongest argument so far, i.e. one that will have a > chance of swaying people who are not the denizens of this forum? We > can't simply make our assertions, we need to have responses ready to > those arguments.
I should expand that. Argument is certainly not the only, nor even the best, way of swaying many people. A statement can sway a person very effectively even with a very poor argument, if it uses effective rhetoric or appeal to emotion or the like. We should also anticipate the most effective statements of our opposition, whether the arguments are strong or not, so that we can have effective defenses. -- \ “The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the | `\ world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports | _o__) the strong probability that yours is a fake.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
