> The reactions like this to Graham's pieces make a good case for learning and using rhetoric. No. It's hard to dig out somebody's argument when it's surround

> The reactions like this to Graham's pieces make a good case for learning and using rhetoric. No. It's hard to dig out somebody's argument when it's surrounded by self-deprecating rhetorical armor. Presumably pg wants the argument front-and-center. That way if he convinces you, it's definitely the argument and not the rhetoric that's doing it. If you disagree then you know exactly what you're disagreeing with. Ignore the ad-hominem people; they'd just find something else that's wrong with you.