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When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation

When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation

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To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms can’t be open unless your head is high... the mastery of such intelligent, kind-hearted, and considered disagreement emerges as a supreme art of living
And yet there are instances in which it is unsound to engage with another whose values are so antithetical to one’s own that the collision is bound to shatter one’s sanity rather than build common ground.

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