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You say ‘Arguments
are a weak man’s weapon’ as if it were an argument. Have you ever asked
yourself what makes an argument, what effort goes behind it? Is it
brute force or is it intelligence and rationality? Is a Gun an
argument? Are nuclear weapons an argument? Is a stick an argument? No.
A gun isn’t. Nuclear weapons too aren’t. A stick too isn’t. But an
argument is! Is that why you consider it a weak man’s weapon?
are a weak man’s weapon’ as if it were an argument. Have you ever asked
yourself what makes an argument, what effort goes behind it? Is it
brute force or is it intelligence and rationality? Is a Gun an
argument? Are nuclear weapons an argument? Is a stick an argument? No.
A gun isn’t. Nuclear weapons too aren’t. A stick too isn’t. But an
argument is! Is that why you consider it a weak man’s weapon?
You
may evade an argument by saying it is the weapon of a weak man, but
what else are you going to use as your weapon? Is it public polls? Is a
public poll an argument? Is the fact that a 100 million fools know for
sure that 1+1=3 going to make it so? Through centuries it has been
proven that the odds are high that the majority is likely to be wrong
in any issue in which a minority has to fight the overwhelming majority
of a population.
It
is not the one who talks the loudest and the one who quotes the most
facts and figures who wins an argument, but it is the one who talks
rationally and consistently .It is the one who has clearly defined his
values and principles irrespective of others approval who wins an
argument, no matter whether others approve of his victory or not. Words
aren’t deceptive. People simply refuse to take heed when your whole
manners shout otherwise. People find your arguments credible only when
you yourself believe in it.
No
one wins an argument when he hasn’t learnt the issues and philosophies
in and out. Get into an argument without defining what you want out of
it, & you see your opponent obfuscating the issue. He gets you into
arguments which reflect moral hypocrisy and laugh at your
inconsistency. When two men develop different perspectives, at least
one and at most both have to be wrong and obviously both have no idea
who it is, otherwise it would have been obviated by the man conscious
of his consciousness. And both lose, by default.
You
may say there are no absolute principles to evade the right questions
of a rational man not knowing you are uttering “There are no
absolutes”, as if it were an absolute. You may say his views are
logical, but not practical forgetting the fact that you are advocating
the evasion of logic to be practical. You might argue his views are
theoretical, but not practical forgetting the fact that everything that
can be put in practice has a sound theoretical foundation.
You
may want to evade the very thought of arguing with a rational man as
you will be torn down to pieces. He will cut your tongue out. No, not
with his lethal large knife, but with his arguments. A knife isn’t
rational. His arguments are! You may keep silence, may assert that you
won’t respond - no one responds when he doesn’t have a definite answer.
But you can’t evade reality, you can’t evade the facts.
You
fear and hate a man who is willing to face the world armed with
nothing, but his mind; nothing, but his arguments. It is such a man you
enjoy destroying. You laugh at him, ostracize him. You despise him.
But, he doesn’t even care. He doesn’t have time to laugh at you. He
despises you even more. He doesn’t want to be in a herd of contemptible
fools. He maybe crushed beneath your feet, destroyed ruthlessly, but he
isn’t willing to change a bit from his values and principles. No, not
for a single moment. Any compromise is worse than death for him. He
learns things down to the root, thinks over it, reaches conclusions no
one has ever reached before. He fights for his arguments, lives for it
and if necessary, dies for it. It is such men who are responsible for
man’s progress. It is such men who have made the world as you see it
now. They gave you the luxuries you enjoy and in most probability even
your life. Is that why you despise such men? Is that why you envy them
deep inside? Isn’t the mediocre minds who sell themselves short, make
sure they won’t rise out of mediocrity the most impractical and
pitiable of creatures. Aren’t such idiots who really deserve to be
called crazy for not making use of their mind and the only life they
got to deal with? Yet, you call the most creative of men crazy,
impractical, utopians, theorists, visionaries – In a sense, as worse as
it can get.
One
might ask how a man is going to fight the masses, fight weapons with
his ideas, his arguments. One might question his naiveté. Have they
ever asked themselves what weapons of the highest sophistication are
made of? Have they ever asked themselves what rationality leads the
masses? Isn’t it too ideas, philosophies-but, the wrong kind of ideas
& philosophies. Whatever you think of him and his ideas, it is the
man of mind, the argumentative man and his ideas which win in the long
run. Such is the power of human mind, its arguments.
Why
you fear arguments? Is it that you can’t speak beautifully, can’t even
take over a village half-wit or a 3 year old child that makes you hate
arguments? One can’t win arguing with fools as they will keep on
talking illogical and irrelevant things and when you make things as
simple as possible and come to the point, they won’t know where to run
and may accept failure as if they were doing you a favor.
You
can’t argue with a fool. He won’t listen. He may get you into an
argument exposing his stupidity, but the moment you take your
rationality out of your quiver, you see him run. He doesn’t have time
to argue with you. He doesn’t want to come anywhere near you or your
arguments. He knows it better that he feels lousy and inferior in front
of your arguments. He dreads you more than you dread him.
You
may say your opponents words hurt; you may say his words are cruel and
offensive. Yet, you can’t refute a single sentence of it. Such is the
nature of a rational argument. You may pretend not to hear, scoff at
him. You may not allow the essence of his arguments into your mind as
it will prove you wrong the moment it does. You may live in a fool’s
paradise accusing him of doing the same. Doing so, it won’t be his
arguments or it’s validity you will be refuting, but your own mind,
your own intelligence, your own conscience!
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6 Responses to “Arguments Are A Weak Man’s Weapon?”
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Deepak Says:
September 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pmSince Blog…keep it up , is this your profile on orkut : http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=4241771284750659968
Unpretentious Diva Says:
September 30th, 2008 at 1:38 amWeak, unreasonable and inappropiate arguments are surely a weak man’s weapon!
A strong man’s weapon to end a wordy/*argumentative* tussle is always sound, reasonable and positive arguments.
Being argumentative is not wrong ( It’s pretty natural for human beings who have got the machine called brain in their hardware which is pretty good at reasoning thinking and analyzing argumentatively), yet being a silly cynic unreasonable arguer is obviously repulsive.
Deadmanoncampus Says:
October 1st, 2008 at 10:49 amMy profile url is
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=8684005583819182781
Sidrah Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm1st time here on ur blog…n i like it =)
That was an interestng read..
happy blogging!^^
GP Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 5:50 pmNice post…..for me presenting excuses reflects weak mentality while arguments or counter questioning reflects curious mind.
Mayuresh Says:
November 10th, 2008 at 6:54 amWhat you said about these honest, creative, rational men is right. But what happens most of the times is that these people do not get “benefit” of the situation. But people with power, self, money, politics as attitude get real advantage by keeping quite. This makes an observer feel that an “argumentive” man is inferior. Even rational man himself leaves “rationality” after a number of such events.