The older I get, the more I realize that people's minds are seldom swayed by even the best logic. I used to take great pride in defeated people with logical conundrums, until I realized that they usually just walked away feeling A) annoyed and B) like I was a smartass. It didn't help anything.
I wonder if all reason is not, at some level, a justification. Obviously, some justifications are much better than others, but ultimately do they all exist simply to reinforce our preexisting beliefs? It's tricky, because I do believe in an objective, absolute Truth, which I'm not too shy to say is God. Perhaps Truth simply transcends both Reason and Emotion. They are, after all, both human products.
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