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Comment author: Kingreaper 20 August 2011 04:38:52PM *  0 points [-]

That is in fact what I'm saying. It's rational to use the dark arts to convince people to be rational, and irrational to try and use rationality to try and persuade people to be rational.

Yes it would be silly (ie. irrational) to think otherwise. However many otherwise rational people do think silly things.