{"id":65211,"date":"2023-11-14T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65211"},"modified":"2023-11-13T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:43:16","slug":"qotd-dont-bother-trying-to-reason-someone-out-of-a-position-they-never-reasoned-themselves-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/14\/qotd-dont-bother-trying-to-reason-someone-out-of-a-position-they-never-reasoned-themselves-into\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Don’t bother trying to reason someone out of a position they never reasoned themselves into"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Forget political philosophy; that stuff is way down the line. The first thing to do is to counter Leftism’s emotional<\/em> appeal. For as much as we all recognize that the Left runs on nothing but spite and envy, it’s remarkable how few people really acknowledge<\/em> this. Trying to reason<\/em> a fanatic out of his fanaticism is like asking your cat to factor quadratics \u2014 not only can’t he do it, he’s not even able to comprehend that you’re asking him to do something. It doesn’t compute.<\/p>\n

We’re dealing with emotion<\/strong>, kameraden<\/em>. Think of your last big fight with your girlfriend, and let me know how well your unassailable facts, your airtight logic, worked out for you.<\/p>\n

That’s the reason the old Right (back when that term meant something) lost every fight with the Left. Even when they saw it, they didn’t really grasp it. For instance, there’s a reason<\/em> I’ve never read a single other word by Henry Hazlitt<\/a>, though he was a big league public intellectual in his day \u2014 he saw, but he didn’t know:<\/p>\n