Value your parabatai," he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do what we do. Why do we fight demons? Why are they not fit custodians of this world? What makes us better? It is because they do not build, but destroy. They do not love, but hate only. We are human and fallible, we Shadowhunters. But if we did not have the capability to love, we could not guard humans; we must love to guard them. My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven
The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it__hey are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation (__learly ._._._), threat (__t would be unscientific to ._._._), authority (__s Popper showed ._._._), insult (__his work lacks the necessary rigor for ._._._), and belittling (__ew people today seriously believe that ._._._). Perhaps this is why H. L. Mencken wrote that __ollege football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students.
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The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it__hey are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation (__learly ._._._), threat (__t would be unscientific to ._._._), authority (__s Popper showed ._._._), insult (__his work lacks the necessary rigor for ._._._), and belittling (__ew people today seriously believe that ._._._). Perhaps this is why H. L. Mencken wrote that __ollege football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students.
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