When Debate Is Futile

[Vol Main]

Dear Sir Oswald,
Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.
I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.
I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.
Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation

 

[TNVOLNAVY]

It’s only February but you are the leader for “Stupid Post of the Year”. Congrats.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Dear Sir Oswald,
Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.
I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.
I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.
Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation

I’m not impressed..... I could have gotten the point across a lot quicker.
“you’re too damn dumb for me to talk to”
B. Russ

 

[newyorkvol]

The irony is that the modern left exhibits more characteristics of fascism than those they call fascists.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Dear Sir Oswald,
Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.
I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.
I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.
Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation

I wonder how much his energy weighed before he lost it while being all woke?

 

[evillawyer]

I’m not impressed..... I could have gotten the point across a lot quicker.
“you’re too damn dumb for me to talk to”
B. Russ

Honestly, Bertrand was head and shoulders smarter than 99.99% of us. For sh*ts and giggles, pick up Principia Mathematica and tell me how far you get. And then Gödel comes along and blows the whole project up. Damn Germans. Such buzzkills.

 

[TNVOLNAVY]

I’m not impressed..... I could have gotten the point across a lot quicker.
“you’re too damn dumb for me to talk to”
B. Russ

Russell was an ignorant leftist commie that should have stuck to math.

 

[NorthDallas40]

WTF?!

 

[Volgolfer1618]

The irony is that the modern left exhibits more characteristics of fascism than those they call fascists.

Yeah, they are the new marxist party. You accuse the otherside of what youre doing. They are total fascists

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

The irony is that the modern left exhibits more characteristics of fascism than those they call fascists.

Right out of Goebbles' playbook