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Temat: How to win an argument:
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How to win an argument...
Simply follow these rules:
1. Make things up!
Always make up exact figures.
If an opponent asks you where you got your information, make THAT up, too. Say: “This information comes from Dr. Hovel T. Moon’s study for the Buford Commission published May 9, 1982. Didn’t you read it?” Say this in the same tone of voice you would use to say “You left your soiled underwear in my bath house.”
2. Use meaningless but weighty-sounding words and phrases.
Memorize this list:
· Let me put it this way
· In terms of
· Vis-a-vis
· Per se
· As it were
· So to speak
3. Use snappy and irrelevant comebacks.
You need an arsenal of all-purpose irrelevant phrases to fire back at your opponents when they make valid points. The best are:
· You’re begging the question.
· You’re being defensive.
· Don’t compare apples and oranges.
· What are your parameters?
This last one is especially valuable. Nobody, other than mathematicians, has the vaguest idea what “parameters” means.
Here’s how to use your comebacks:
You say - As Abraham Lincoln said in 1873…
Your opponents says - Lincoln died in 1865.
You say - You’re begging the question.
OR
You say - Liberians, like most Asians…
Your opponents says - Liberia is in Africa.
You say - You’re being defensive.
4. Compare your opponent to Adolf Hitler.
This is your heavy artillery, for when your opponent is obviously right and you are spectacularly wrong. Bring Hitler up subtly. Say: “That sounds suspiciously like something Adolf Hitler might say” or “You certainly do remind me of Adolf Hitler.”
You now know how to out-argue anybody.
