{"id":8494,"date":"2013-09-09T05:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T05:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/arguments-dont-have-testicles-4\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T05:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T05:57:21","slug":"arguments-dont-have-testicles-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/arguments-dont-have-testicles-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguments Don&#8217;t Have Testicles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">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;\">A mind well-stocked with prepared lines is a mind less likely to suffer <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;\">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: <em>Arguments don&#39;t have testicles!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Other applications are easily imagined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We ought to be able to extend the idea to race.&#0160; Suppose a left-wing black takes umbrage at a Bill O&#39;Reilly-type pointing out of the causes of the problems in the black &#39;community.&#39;&#0160; Say:&#0160; <em>In my neck of the &#39;hood, arguments they ain&#39;t got no skin color.&#0160; Hell, they ain&#39;t got no skin!<\/em><\/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 l&#39;esprit d&#39;escalier.&#0160; Suppose a feminist argues that men have no right to an opinion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/arguments-dont-have-testicles-4\/\" 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":[6,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494","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=8494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}