re: #701 kirkspencer

Oh. I don’t care for metaphysics. So that’d explain that.

Fair question. The primary difference is that I use both heart and mind. (sorry for the cliche). The point I was trying to make is that if you don’t use both, the heart — the emotional argument — wins. In an ideal world both are used, and I try to do this as much as possible.

I’m saying you’re destroying the ‘mind’ part of the argument when you use inaccurate, emotionally laden terms that allow your argument to be jettisoned through both inaccuracy and emotional mismatch. If you tell someone a fetus is a parasite and that person had had a child and they don’t feel that it was like a parasite, then how have you not hobbled your argument out of the gate?