{"id":5348,"date":"2017-08-12T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/12\/arguments-dont-have-testicles\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T16:04:09","slug":"arguments-dont-have-testicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/12\/arguments-dont-have-testicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguments Don&#8217;t Have Testicles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Prepared lines come in handy in many of life&#39;s situations.&#0160; They are useful for getting points across in a memorable way and they &#0160;make for effective on-the-spot rebuttals.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">A mind well-stocked with prepared lines is a mind less likely to suffer&#0160;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L&#39;esprit_de_l&#39;escalier\" target=\"_self\">l&#39;esprit d&#39;escalier.<\/a>&#0160;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Suppose a feminist argues that men have no right to an opinion about the morality of abortion.&#0160; Without a moment&#39;s hesitation, retort:&#0160;<em>Arguments don&#39;t have testicles!<\/em>&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepared lines come in handy in many of life&#39;s situations.&#0160; They are useful for getting points across in a memorable way and they &#0160;make for effective on-the-spot rebuttals.&#0160; A mind well-stocked with prepared lines is a mind less likely to suffer&#0160;l&#39;esprit d&#39;escalier.&#0160; Suppose a feminist argues that men have no right to an opinion about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/12\/arguments-dont-have-testicles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arguments Don&#8217;t Have Testicles!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}