Wise words from another board... [View all]

[onager]

I found this at the James Randi (JREF) board today. I may print it out and stick it on my monitor...or forehead.

Normally I would give credit to the original poster by naming them, but the posters in that thread might not want a lot of unwanted attention from elsewhere. So I'll leave it anonymous:

I think you observe just like I do that ordinarily rational and intelligent people can lose their heads when they get angry and say or do things they later regret.

One of the important tactics of manipulative people pushing an agenda is to "discredit" their opposition by getting them angry. So you use logical fallacies, patronizing insults and accusations of imaginary crimes, etc. to inspire anger and then point to them saying "see how unreasonable you are... you're just an angry person."

And that is the very reason why you can't let them get under your skin.