The most effective way around this is to stop trying to make logical arguments.

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This rule is bad news for society, which could do with hearing, from time to time, the logical arguments and wisdom built on experience that, at their best, business leaders can bring.

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Fortunately, though, a quest for a sort of Medieval socialism does not play well with American voters, so opponents cast about for logical-sounding arguments that focus-group better.

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He communicated with wit, wisdom and satire and made many of his points by carrying arguments to their logical extreme.

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Satire, and carrying faulty but appealing arguments to their logical conclusions, may be the best ways to discuss trade and other issues that are not intuitively obvious.

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Some of the arguments he traces are familiar, from various attempts to prove the logical necessity of the existence of god to speculations among more adventurous physicists that the universe got its start as a kind of lucky quantum burp.

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Now I would argue that global free trade is the only logical or sensible thing to be doing: but leave that aside for a moment, what possible arguments are there against free trade within Africa?

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