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I have been in many arguments and by
my count I have won all of them. Everyone else involved in these
arguments might give a slightly different view point, where I do not
have quite as good record. As I got a little older, I was able to
reflect on these arguments I lost in my late teens and early
twenties, and found something very interesting. Being right does not
mean that you will win. This was something that I just did not
understand. How could I be right, even being able to prove it, and
still lose? I was not until years later that I figured out that the
situation were using solely logic to win is as rare as hens teeth.
Most people will not be persuaded by logic alone, it can make them
angry and unreasonable. I if logic worked, I do not think that much
of the strife we find in the world today would exist. It is at this
point that Chapter 13 comes in and saves us with one world
“persuasion.” This was the what I was missing when I was younger.
Well that and a valid argument, but that is beside the point.
Persuasion is an essential part of any argument you need to wrap the
argument in persuasion to make it palatable. Something that I think
that the comic “Argument Beyond Pro and Con,” that we were given
as additional reading, demonstrates well. With only zero-sum
arguments the chance of winning is greatly reduced, because someone
else has to lose. Which is not something that anyone will willing do.
Instead, creating the “argument/persuasion sandwich” as shown in
the comic. You blend the all the tools need for a winning position.
Which if done well, can be quite light on the logic part and do
better than an argument full of absolute proof. Tools which I could
have used with in was younger.
- Austin
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