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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not all knowledge is created equal. One can be extremely knowledgeable about a thousand things and be dominated by someone knowledgeable about manipulation. One can be extremely intelligent and still gullible.

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    [–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That is usually not the case. It is mostly just other people too dumb to understand the reasons of the other person attributing that logic to them while the other person has very valid reasons to look down on someone else. It seems that the people who think with their heart and not with their brain can't simply be reasoned with, they lack the faculties to overcome their emotional response. It is very easy to manipulate those people once you know how.

    The perfect example is a recent "prove me wrong" by Crowder. Some "screamer" on a motorcycle is making noise to drown out the conversation with a black girl, logic obviously doesn't work. Crowder starts chanting "stop silencing black voices" and that works. You can craft an emotional argument that makes no logical sense and it works, but the most intelligent non emotional argument wont.