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Comment author: SilasBarta 01 December 2010 04:41:58AM 3 points [-]

People don't object to skillful persuaders of the other kind, either. See, when you can limit yourself to the set of "happy customers", both kinds look the same. But that doesn't answer the question about the basis for why one kind is accepted and one kind isn't.