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Comment author: entirelyuseless 11 October 2015 12:23:52PM 1 point [-]

Yes, and in fact telling someone, "I disagree with you but I don't have time to explain why, read this book to discover the truth," will often come across as being arrogant, since the person doesn't want to spend a lot of time explaining things, but he wants the other person to spend a lot of time reading a book.