A thought in praise of Rationalists

[feotakahari]

Inspired by this exchange. 

A joke Stephen Colbert once made: "God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God." This is an actual argument style, and some people get surprisingly far with it. I think one of the defining traits of Rationalists, as a community, is that they are very good at noticing when anyone tries to argue this way.

Comments

[yvannairie]

Reduction to absurdism does have it's uses, but it also demands YOU hand your argumentative believability over. It's high-risk high-reward, and does nothing in proper debates that aim to find the truth