DanArmak comments on Let Them Debate College Students - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 September 2009 06:15PM

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 10 September 2009 01:42:04AM *  5 points [-]

Rhetoric skills are like a knife: If you have a knife, you can use it to kill people or you can use it to prevent people from being killed, but possessing it will not kill you, with admitted rare exceptions.

Comment author: DanArmak 10 September 2009 01:52:44AM 4 points [-]

But if you've spent your life convincing people to embrace nonviolence, you throw the knife away to save your reputation.