Originally Posted by
gregherman115@yahoo.com
Why can we not find a better way to prime the minds of those lacking in critical thought? They lack the capacity for critical thought to begin with, so it must be taught in a manner that they can understand. In other words, an emotional appeal must be made to convince these emotional people, and trigger the process of critical thought. But instead of trying to persuade emotional people with an emotional appeal, we tend to try to point out hypocrisy, or provide statistics, or whatever other logic based approach that gets taken. Those efforts rarely pan out.