Recalling La Rochefoucauld, "The only orator who never fails to persuade is emotion". I appreciate the distinction between an argument and a conversation. In a

Recalling La Rochefoucauld, "The only orator who never fails to persuade is emotion". I appreciate the distinction between an argument and a conversation. In a conversation, one is hopefully just as open to being persuaded as one is to persuading. If, by arguing, we engender negative emotions in our interlocutor, we will have employed the most potent orator against ourselves.